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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 07:22 AM Apr 2013

Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from Mr. Rogers

Someone once asked me if I could “model” myself after anyone who would it be? After thinking about it, I said, “Fred Rogers.”

Now, THAT got a laugh.

But the reason is simple. Fred Rogers did what most people dream of: he spent his life doing the things he loved and at the same time made a positive impact on millions of people. And he did it in an honest way without changing who he was (and by all accounts he was just the same off-camera that he was on-camera).

Who could ask for more?

But even more, I figure that I pretty much learned everything I needed to know from Mr. Rogers.

Fred Rogers and his TV show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood taught me more about life than most of those self-help guru/scammers out there. And he did it for free!

So, what did I learn? These are just some of the lessons I learned from Mr. Rogers.

Snip

“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
Fred Rogers


http://dontstepinthepoop.com/everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-from-mr-rogers


Margaret Thatcher could have learned a million things from Fred Rogers.

If she did, then the whole world would not be going out of its way to piss on her grave.

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from Mr. Rogers (Original Post) MrScorpio Apr 2013 OP
I agree! In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #1
I had the great honor and pleasure to meet both Mr. Rogers and Jim Henson. Javaman Apr 2013 #2

Javaman

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2. I had the great honor and pleasure to meet both Mr. Rogers and Jim Henson.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 09:32 AM
Apr 2013

both were such nice and gentle human beings.

They were like what you expected them to be.

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