1. The document summarizes quotes from influential figures who dismissed new technologies and ideas that later became mainstream successes. It encourages seeing "problems as possibility stones" and focusing on goals rather than obstacles. 2. It discusses the importance of vision, passion for creating a better world, and focusing on values rather than letting negative people pour "cold water" on ideas. 3. The conclusion emphasizes speaking positively, believing in possibilities, working together for growth, and remembering that progress requires going beyond what is merely "very good."

1. Adrian Hawkes
PCC Staff training 30th Jan 2016
Date for Dinner Thursday 3rd March 2016

2. BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE THE BEST AND THAT
MEANS BEST FOR CLIENTS AND LA’S
1. What is it that Companies use most to
sell the Products and services
2. What is the prime mover of all
companies that sell goods and services
3. What is the prime ‘thing’ that affects us
all when buying goods and services
(clue 2 & 3 are the same)

3. THE ANSWERS
1. To make the world a better place or to make you a better person
2 & 3

4. MOST GREAT IDEAS AND INNOVATIONS WHERE
FIRST OF ALL APPROACHED NEGATIVELY – WATCH…
This is what ‘they’
said-

5. IMPOSSIBLE QUOTES:
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their
home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of
Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication. The
device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union
internal memo,

6. AND THERE IS MORE…
"The Americans have need of the telephone, but
we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."
-- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the
British Post Office, 1876.
The wireless music box has no imaginable
commercial value. Who would pay for a
message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David
Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings
for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

7. AND EVEN MORE…
"While theoretically and technically television may
be feasible, commercially and financially it is an
impossibility." -- Lee DeForest, inventor.
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M.
Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on
the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting
the Beatles, 1962.

8. SHALL WE GO ON…
"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are
impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- William
Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
"It will be years -- not in my time -- before a woman will become
Prime Minister." -- Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will
ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have
to be shattered at will." -- Albert Einstein, 1932.
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in
explosives." -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb
Project.
"There will never be a bigger plane built." -- A Boeing engineer,
after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds
ten people.

9. SO AS YOU CAN SEE ITS NOT HARD TO BE
NEGATIVE ITS NOT HARD TO NOT SEE
POSSIBILITY'S

10. THINGS I HEAR…
• I have a problem, here is an answer,
that gives me another problem, here
is the answer to that, that gives me
even another problem.
• Hang on do you want an answer or
do you just want problems
• or do you want a reason not to do.

11. THINGS I WANT TO SAY…
• Vision – without it we perish
• Engage your brain before engaging you mouth – I agree that
sometime things seem impossible, but there are those people
around who I call ‘bucket of cold water people’ every good Idea
or idea for expansion they have a big bucket of negative cold
water on hand to throw over it.
• My Grandmother said… Those who never made a mistake never
made anything!
• Pauline has a nice theory called the Gibeonite theory you can
find it in Joshua 9
• And further I would like to say “Problems are really possibility
stones on which to stand to get us up higher”

12. WHAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER –

13. ORDINARY OR EXTRA ORDINARY
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
George *Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2
November 1950) was an Irish playwright, who
received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

14. IMPORTANT WORDS…
• Passion
• Moral Pressure
• A better world
• Emotion
• Your Values Matter
• Focus

15. HOW NOT TO BE NEGATIVE…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7RTNAl02HM

16. ONE PARTICULAR GUY NEVER COULD SEE THE
PROBLEMS..
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time
more intelligently..”
Henry Ford
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take
your eyes off your goal.”
Henry Ford
“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need
any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe
everything will work out for the best in the end. So what
is there to worry about.”
Henry Ford

17. AND FINALLY HE SAID…
• I refuse to recognize the existence of
impossibilities. I don’t know anyone who knows
enough about any subject to be able to say that
something is or is not impossible. If someone
who takes himself for an expert and declares
that such and such a thing is impossible, right
away there’s a horde of nincompoops who sing
the chorus: ‘It’s impossible…’
Henry Ford

18. YOU CAN…
“If you can imagine it, you can
achieve it. If you can dream
it, you can become it.”
William Arthur Ward Listed
in the American ‘who who’

19. TO CONCLUDE …

20. WHAT WE NEED TOGETHER IS…
• The Goal
• The Plan
• The Idea
• The Impossibility
• The Better....

21. SO WHAT TO I WANT US TO LEARN FROM THIS
TRAINING?
• To learn to speak positively
• To see problems as possibilities
• To believe that things are possible
• To work together to see growth
• To remember that we want to be
GOOD but that the worst enemy of
better is very good.

22. AND SO WE SHOULD BE…
Phoenix Community Care
Staff Training
30th January 2016
Adrian Hawkes