Student Success Statement #72

Student Success Statement

"The first law of success...Is concentration; to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point  looking neither to the right nor the left."

-William Mathews 

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that people need to concentrate on what they are doing because at the end whatever you did will show that you actually tried and concentrated when you were doing that certain thing. For example, if someone is taking a test like the CST, they need to concentrate because if they don't concentrate, they will not get the best score that they could have.

Student Success Statement #34

Student Success Statement  

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (and not good).”

                                        -Joseph Smith

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that people should choose the right all the time even if people make it seem as it is the worst choice to do. I believe that when people choose the right they are choosing the best choice because they are choosing the choice that will make them feel really good about themselves because they chose the right thing to do. Sometimes people think that doing what the popular people do is the best thing to do because they are popular and they should know what to do, but that is a lie. Just because doing the wrong is popular and a lot of people do the wrong thing doesn't mean that it is the best thing to do. For example if people decide to not do their homework and they tell others to not do it as well, then don't listen them because they are just doing what they think will make them look cool.