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Ne Tentes aut Perfice -If somethings worth doing, its worth doing well |
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Jones on Heroes |
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“Who cares who dares who wins” as we used to joke darkly. The answer is we all do .Heroes are so important in your life , they give inspiration and opportunities to measure ourselves against benchmark values in the same circumstances. Heroes can be floored and often are, but still provide a beacon of inspiration. These are some of mine in no particular order
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CB Fry |
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Sir Edmund Hilary |
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.. No one save Hilary and Tenzing knows who went first and they are not talking . But Ed Hilary spent the rest of his life dedicated to helping the Sherpa families by building schools and medical facilities |
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Ernie Chadwick |
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Tak Takavesi |
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Famous to millions for his image hanging suspended above the flames on a jammed abseil rig during the 1980 Iranian embassy siege. Tak Takavesi was in fact a boys own hero amongst even the hardened members of the SAS . Regiment members believe he should have won a VC for his part in the Oman BATT house action. The stories are that he paid his own way to join the Falklands war having been away on family business in Fiji. I remember him as my training SGT picking me up by the back of my Bergen without breaking stride and that huge warm smile which I only ever saw broken once at his retirement presentation when ‘Crookie’ gave him his present and tears ran gently down his face. |
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Atsushi Fuji |
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Rolf Harris |
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Rudyard Kipling |
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Rudyard Kipling's (1865-1936) inspirational poem 'If' first appeared in his collection 'Rewards and Fairies' in 1909. The poem 'If' is inspirational, motivational, and a set of rules for 'grown-up' living. Kipling's 'If' contains mottos and maxims for life, and the poem is also a blueprint for personal integrity, behaviour and self-development. 'If' is perhaps even more relevant today than when Kipling wrote it, as an ethos and a personal philosophy. Lines from Kipling's 'If' appear over the player's entrance to Wimbledon's Centre Court - a poignant reflection of the poem's timeless and inspiring quality. The beauty and elegance of 'If' contrasts starkly with Rudyard Kipling's largely tragic and unhappy life. He was starved of love and attention and sent away by his parents; beaten and abused by his foster mother; and a failure at a public school which sought to develop qualities that were completely alien to Kipling. In later life the deaths of two of his children also affected Kipling deeply. Rudyard Kipling achieved fame quickly, based initially on his first stories and poems written in India (he returned there after College), and his great popularity with the British public continued despite subsequent critical reaction to some of his more conservative work, and critical opinion in later years that his poetry was superficial and lacking in depth of meaning. Significantly, Kipling turned down many honours offered to him including a knighthood, Poet Laureate and the Order of Merit, but in 1907 he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kipling's wide popular appeal survives through other works, notably The Jungle Book (1894) the novel, Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). |