Re: Mom's words
One more,
"If your friend can get the top position in college, why can't you ? He is also a human like you and doesn't possess anything more than you " :~)
Another similar one:
If one can become a doctor, so can the other.
^ This applies to almost every profession which requires a lot of hard work and dedication such as Engineering etc...People tend to think that Doctors are fallen from sky or something with special abilities not posessed by others. This is not true. No doubt that it requires hard work but I believe others, if they put their mind to it, can accomplish it too. Professions like these require hard work and and that's all. To prove it, let me relate an incidnent.
One of my profesor was telling us that when he was back in high school, there were few friends with him who weren't that great at studying (ie. used to get grades like Ds and Fs because they didn't care nor did they pay attention). But right after they got out of high school and put their mind in studying, they started climbing the ladder of sucess. Almost every other person in high school thought they would not succeed in life but now almost all of them are doing either Master or PhD.