People who inspire?

burgermasters

Stained Class wrote: »

Have another few of them burgers.

It might keep you quiet.

Man was a genius! What's there to keep quiet about? Maybe its a burger you need? Or some warm milk help you sleep? You seem a little cranky

goz83

burgermasters wrote: »

Well the British empire that is!

The empire that once had 3 thirds of the globe

Inside joke

burgermasters

goz83 wrote: »

The empire that once had 3 thirds of the globe

Inside joke

Wondered when not would show up? Welcome goz

burgermasters

goz83 wrote: »

The empire that once had 3 thirds of the globe

Inside joke

Oh and by the way? That's getting old

goz83

burgermasters wrote: »

Wondered when not would show up? Welcome goz

When? I'm never gone

Who inspires me? Hmmmmm

That's a tough one. But a quote perhaps.

It doesn't matter whether a man believes he can, or believes he can't, either way, he's right. - Henry Ford.

K-9

Just because somebody believes in a cause doesn't make it right.

steddyeddy

goz83 wrote: »

When? I'm never gone

Who inspires me? Hmmmmm

That's a tough one. But a quote perhaps.

It doesn't matter whether a man believes he can, or believes he can't, either way, he's right. - Henry Ford.

The inspiring thing relating to that man is that Ford now support gay marriage . The bigot will be rolling in his grave!

I find Brian O'Driscoll inspiring.

Also, some excellent suggestions in this thread, although I couldn't help noticing 99% of the suggestions are men.

Of course, now that I've mentioned that, people will be consciously trying to think of inspiring women to add to the list

Some poor sap will then say "my mother"

Lemonperv

Paula Abdul

mikemac1

steddyeddy wrote: »

The Medici family: For the italian renaissance

You don't have to look to the past for crooked bankers

mikemac1

Lapin wrote: »

RE - John Hume.

I glanced at that and for a second thought it was RIP - John Hume

Prometheus

I have several people that have inspired me over the years, but in every case, when I have delved deeper into these peoples lives I have always without exception come across a WTF.
All inspirational people have at some time behaved quite the opposite to how we perceive them.
All of the "famous" inspirational people have at times led questionable lives at some point.
I am fully aware that this is human nature, and nobody is perfect etc. Is this image we have of a lot of these people
due to bending of the truth by supporters?
Is any person that constantly appears on the inspiration list truly worthy of it?
Would love to know, and again fully appreciate its all about perspective and human nature.

Wibbs

Prometheus wrote: »

I have several people that have inspired me over the years, but in every case, when I have delved deeper into these peoples lives I have always without exception come across a WTF.
All inspirational people have at some time behaved quite the opposite to how we perceive them.

I see this as a good thing. "Saints" are boring, "sinners" rising above that are far more interesting.

Speaking of saints, I'd find Columbanus inspiring. Not the religious bit, just the sheer bloodyminded determination of the man. Ditto for many of those early Irish monks, like the aforementioned Brendan and the later John Scottus. Serious brain going on with him. His various philosophies are well worth a read. When the pope and his advisors finally got around to actually reading them, they went apeshít and called him a heretic, so that's a recommendation if there ever was one.

dirtyden

Nelson Mandela. Locked up for 27 years, comes out, does he look for justice againsh his jailers/oppessors. Nope he just gets on with being an absolute hero.

Frogeye

Ghandi is inspring me at the moment-Reading some of his stuff now. Not sure I'm down with his celibacy ideas but the rest is pretty challanging. I would recommend his book "The story of my experiments with truth".

I have nothing new to teach the world.Truth and non violence are as old as the hills

kasper

arthur guinness

eviltwin

As a newish runner Derek Redmond and his determination at the 1992 Olympics inspires me.

steddyeddy

rosalind franklin: Her work on x-ray Crystallography is what lead to the discovery of the DNA double helix. She didn't recieve any credit for years either.

123 LC

K-9 wrote: »

I think the picture of him crying would have broke any ordinary individual, the talks were crumbling, only John Hume could have rose above all that.

How he overcame that and battled on is inspiring.

does anyone know where to find this picture, I'd like to see it.

for me, Rosa Parks, all the people on the ireland people of the year awards are truly inspiring, some heart-wrenching stories.

Some Yoke

Self help book writers. Also random quotes from famous people that sound really deep and intelligent but for the most part they're taken out of context by people in conversations or whatever.. Just because something sounds cool doesnt mean its right.

seven_eleven

The people that inspire me most are afew nurses and healthcare workers I know that are exceedingly great at the job they do. I know plenty of average and even bad workers, but there's a handful of them I know that inspire me to try my damright hardest and to never give up no matter how many times I get shot down.

jetsonx

Tom Gilmartin is a man to be admired. One of the few who decided to expose the corruption in Irish politics.

Mr. Nice

Mardy Bum wrote: »

Personally it would be David Simon and Ed Burns, both are responsible for the greatest work of art of the past 10 years.

The Wire?
And you mention it in the same post as Oscar Wilde, Joyce and Darwin?

weldoninhio

dirtyden wrote: »

Nelson Mandela. Locked up for 27 years, comes out, does he look for justice againsh his jailers/oppessors. Nope he just gets on with being an absolute hero.

Locked up for being a terrorist and murdering civilians. Absolute hero.

omerin

Frogeye wrote: »

Ghandi is inspring me at the moment-Reading some of his stuff now. Not sure I'm down with his celibacy ideas but the rest is pretty challanging. I would recommend his book "The story of my experiments with truth".

I have nothing new to teach the world.Truth and non violence are as old as the hills

I was wondering what happened to him, he made one good film, didn't think he wrote aswell

steddyeddy

seven_eleven wrote: »

The people that inspire me most are afew nurses and healthcare workers I know that are exceedingly great at the job they do. I know plenty of average and even bad workers, but there's a handful of them I know that inspire me to try my damright hardest and to never give up no matter how many times I get shot down.

The ones who put emotional investment into health care really amaze me. How they do it day in day out is a mystery!

K-9

123 LC wrote: »

does anyone know where to find this picture, I'd like to see it.

for me, Rosa Parks, all the people on the ireland people of the year awards are truly inspiring, some heart-wrenching stories.

I can't find anything when searching, the end of this youtube clip is the nearest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTtkeQCOQc

I remember it vividly as I think it was his wife that hugged him.

steddyeddy

Stephen Foster, Irish american singer song writer who stood up for the rights of African americans and the poor in society.

K-9

Lapin wrote: »

RE - John Hume.

Flawed as it is, recognition doesn't come much higher than the Nobel Peace Prize.

Obviously.


But they usually inspire to get the Nobel Pace Prize.

John Hume wins out over Adams or McGuiness, Hume was/is a gentleman.

Eventually everybody came round to see Hume's vision.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Sir Alex Ferguson - insatiable drive and appetite for success. He lives to be the best.

People who have found inner peace.

Healthcare workers who go above and beyond the call of duty.

K-9

The reason we don't have Hume's vision and brain anymore is Alzheimers.

I hope he gets the best Health care workers as per Pete Campbell'/flah's post.

Indubitable

Gregor Mendel

I have to say I'm consistently impressed by the remarkable success of Alan Joyce from Tallaght, an ex-Aer Lingus employee (like loads of other senior people in world aviation) who became head of Quantas airlines in 2008 at 42 years of age and turned the whole airline around despite enormous abuse like this. He must have an amazing combination of abilities and a great sense of himself.

How Qantas CEO Alan Joyce turned a $2.8bn loss into a $900m profit

And he's in today's news for a very different reason:

Qantas boss Alan Joyce feted for backing gay marriage

Tom Mann Centuria

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I have to say I'm consistently impressed by the remarkable success of Alan Joyce from Tallaght, an ex-Aer Lingus employee (like loads of other senior people in world aviation) who became head of Quantas airlines in 2008 at 42 years of age and turned the whole airline around despite enormous abuse like this. He must have an amazing combination of abilities and a great sense of himself.

How Qantas CEO Alan Joyce turned a $2.8bn loss into a $900m profit

5000 staff lost their job, good capitalist? Probably. Inspiring? Nope, not for me.

irishguitarlad

Henry Rollins. I could run through a wall after watching one of his interviews.

Rumpy Pumpy

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

5000 staff lost their job, good capitalist? Probably. Inspiring? Nope, not for me.

Should have kept them all on and let the company fold, is it?

Tom Mann Centuria

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Should have kept them all on and let the company fold, is it?

Your balls aren't crystal and nor are mine so neither of us can know the ifs buts and coconuts of what different options there were, or what would have happened with someone else, or different plans. Your post suggests the option was lose 5000 jobs (and no less) or company folds (and no alternative). Are you suggesting they were only 2 options? Laughable absolute.