Shadow Divers

I'm reading a book that my buddy Larry suggested I read. It's a book about two deep sea divers that search for mystery wreckage's. The two men are Richie Kohler and John Chatterton. In the chapter "John Chatterton", it describes his life growing up and the time he spent in the Vietnam War. It talks about the life lessons he learned during his stint. There is one part that he describes as his beliefs. I thought they were really thought provoking and thought they were necessary to share.

From Shadow Divers pages 84 and 85:

-If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it.

-If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving.

-Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average.
-Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever.

-Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.

-It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong.

-The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care anymore, who has said "I'm already dead--the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself," is the most formidable force in the world.

-The worst possible decision is to give up.