These hero stories are from Mr. Baker's freshman college & career planning course. Students focus on contemporary individuals who exemplify their own values and aspirations for the future.
"You...have two choices: Coast and do nothing, in which case, you've...wasted your life force. Or...try things. ...Maybe some things will fail... Maybe some will succeed. But if you don't try, you'll never find those things that work out." - R.W
"The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less." -Howard Coble (Representative for North Carolina''s 6th congressional district)
"Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."- Karl Lagerfeld
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."- Helen Keller
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."- Neil Gaiman, (Coraline)
"As a kid, you obviously dream of being... like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don''t think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football." - Gareth Bale
"There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work."• Brandon Stanton
"What you're doing is incredibly arrogant, which is: 'I believe that this group of people can make something that millions of other people will not only enjoy, but will enjoy so much that they're willing to pay for it.'"
"It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today."
"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair." -David Crane
"If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That''s why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing" GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
"Legacy wise, I'd like to be remembered as a guy who was always an underdog but always held his own and always put on an incredible show on the court." -Grayson Boucher