George Raveling
WSU Basketball Camp, 1981

General

• Hearing - Sound waves pass thru brain, not analyzed
• Listening - Sound waves analyzed, stored in the brain
• Looking - Watching, no interpretation, or analysis
• Seeing - Interpret, analyze, react to environment

To many people hear and look instead of listening and seeing

Fundamentals of life

• To be successful in anything you must first master the fundamentals

Be a dreamer

• Many do not dream big enough. It is perfectly fine to have your head in the clouds but your feet on the ground focused on your dream.
• Everyone needs to dream that we are heading for something. Dreams become realities with hard work.
• No one has ever hurt their eyes by looking at the bright side of life.

Be a learner

• Education is a continual process thru life.
• 71% of books in libraries are never taken out. A person who does not read is as bad as one who can not read.
• You learn by interacting with people or situations who are more learned or different.
• The average North American watches up to 7 1/2 hours of TV per day. TV is aimed at the eighth (8th) grade intelligence level.
• No one can ever take away what you have learned.
• If you improve your life, then you improve the lives of others around you.
• You want to be a better person on Thursday than you were on Wednesday, you want to be a better person on Friday than you were on Thursday.

Believe in yourself

• Others will believe in you if you believe in yourself.
• Be positive, not negative about yourself.
• Your mind gives you back exactly what you put into it. If you put into your mind that you can, then you will!
• We spend to much time telling ourselves that we can't.
• If you are not afraid to lead the music, then you get to lead the band.
• You are the only one who can prevent you from being the best you can be.
• If you don't like yourself, then change.

Believe there is a method to success

• Have a goal, know where you are going.
• Apply yourself to the method.
• Make your own breaks, there is no such thing as luck.
• Be enthusiastic about your goal.
• Thoughts determine what you want, actions determine what you get.

Be a worker

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.
• You never lose your shirt by rolling up your sleeves.
• Do not confuse movement with action, just because you have a job does not mean you are working.
• God left enough food to feed all of the birds, but he did not put it in their nests.