Thought for the Day - Change

If you don't like something change it.

If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Don't complain.

Maya Angelou

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

-Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

Thought for the Day

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision.  You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

I Believe...

A Birth Certificate shows that we were born

A Death Certificate shows that we died

Pictures show that we lived!
Have a seat …Relax . . . And read this slowly...

I Believe...
Just because two people argue,
it doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
it doesn't mean they do love each other.

I Believe...
We don't have to change friends if
we understand that friends change.

I Believe..
No matter how good a friend is,
they're going to hurt you every once in a while and
you must forgive them for that.

I Believe...
True friendship continues to grow, even over
the longest distance..
The same goes for true love.

I Believe..
You can do something in an instant
that will give you heartache for life.

I Believe...
That it's taking me a long time
to become the person I want to be.

I Believe...
You should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.

I Believe...
You can keep going long after you think you can't.

I Believe...
We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I Believe...
Either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I Believe...
Money is a lousy way of keeping score.

I Believe...
My best friend and I, can do anything, or
nothing and have the best time.

I Believe...
Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down,
will be the ones to help you get back up.

I Believe...
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had
and what you've learned from them and
less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

I Believe..
It isn't always enough, to be forgiven by others.
sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I Believe...
No matter how bad your heart is broken
the world doesn't stop for your grief.

I Believe...
Our background and circumstances may have
influenced who we are, but.
we are responsible for who we become.

I Believe...
Two people can look at the same
thing and see something totally different.

I Believe...
Your life can be changed in a matter of
hours by people who don't even know you.

  

I Believe...
Even when you think you have no more to give,
when a friend cries out to you -
you will find the strength to help.

I Believe...
Credentials on the wall do not make you a
decent human being.

'The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything.'

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Losing one glove 

is certainly painful, 

but nothing 

compared to the pain, 

of losing one, 

throwing away the other, 

and finding 

the first one again.

-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

-Nora Ephron, novelist (b. 1941)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

-Egyptian proverb

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

-Marshall McLuhan, educator and philosopher (1911-1980)

Thought for the Day

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out."

~ Ronald Reagan

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

-Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (b. 1949)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

-Robert Southey (1774-1843)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier, and simpler.

-Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

-Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

-Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

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Recovery Procedure:

 

Ensure that no body can steal and use your mobile,

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Please follow these simple steps
 
Each mobile carries a unique IMEI i.e International Mobile Identity No.

which can be used to track your

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This is how it works:

1. Dial *#06# from your mobile.
2. Your mobile shows a unique 15 digit .
3. Note down this no. which will help in

tracing your mobile in case of a theft.
4. Once stolen, just have to mail this 15 digit IMEI no. to
cop@vsnl.net
5. No need to go to police.
6. Your Mobile will be traced within 24 hrs(?)  via a complex system of GPRS and internet.
7. You will find where your hand set is being operated even in case your no. is being changed.

If you have lost your mobile,

send an e-mail to cop@vsnl.net

with the following information:

Your Name:
Address:
Phone Model:
Make:
Last used No. :
E-mail for communication :
Missed Date :
IMEI No.:
 

 

Simple Quotes

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. -Amos Bronson Alcott

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - French Proverb

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Nicholas Charles Trublet

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. -Michel de Montaigne

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - William R. Alger

What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. - Peter Anderson

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. - Vicesimus Knox

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.- William B. Sprague

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity. - James Russell Lowell

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. -Unknown

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. - Joseph Joubert

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. - Samuel Smiles

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. -Joseph Joubert

Human success is a quotation from overhead. - Charles H. Parkhurst

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle

A proverb is the child of experience. - Old Saying

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - Sir J. Mackintosh

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold. - Tryon Edwards 

Great Quotes of the Century

Imagination is more important than knowledge" Albert Einstein

"Do or do not. There is no TRY" Yoda

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"Eleanor Roosevelt

"A dream is a wish your heart makes" Walt Disney's Cinderella

"We must be the change we wish to see" Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away" Unknown

"Two roads diverged in the wood and I.. I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" Robert Frost

"Success is a journey, not a destination" Ben Sweetland

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone" Bill Cosby

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice" Indian Proverb

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will" 
Vince Lombardi

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"Aristotle

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" Marianne Williamson

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals" Henry Ford

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there"Will Rogers

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you'll die today" James Dean

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" 
Oscar Wilde

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work" 
Thomas Edison

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear" Ambrose Redmoon

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed" Booker T. Washington

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" Thomas Edison

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" Wayne Gretzky

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others" Nelson Mandela

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up" Thomas Edison

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions" Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It is never too late to be what you might have been" George Elliot

"Minds are like parachutes: they only function when they are open"
Thomas Dewar

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" Sir Winston Churchill

"Give the world your very best and may it never be enough" 
Mother Theresa

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself" Galileo Galilei

"Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny" Frank Outlaw

CHANGE

LEVERAGE CHANGE

When things are NOT going well, it is time to stretch your self. Dig in to something which feeds your passion.

Disappointment in the results you produce is an indicator to adjust the strategies you are using. Seek out someone who has successfully done what you are doing and follow the path they have made.

Thinking in terms of either/or limits your opportunities. Move toward creating more options or choices and you move towards growth.

Approaching life expecting a specific outcome is self limiting. Instead, do the things you love and enjoy; whatever comes out of it will be of great value.

When your focus is on the experience and NOT on the result, you increase your satisfaction tenfold.

Think like a mouse in a maze: find multiple ways to reach your dreams. Only repeat those approaches that move you forward more quickly.

Failure is a sign of lack of skill or experience. By developing your strongest skills , you acquire the experience necessary to succeed.

Success is the consistent pursuit of things you value and the satisfaction of learning in the process.

When setbacks can be used as empowerment and motivation, you discover the strength of leveraging change.

Focusing on what can be done better, what your future looks like and refusing to engage in proving you are better than someone else demonstrates the power of leverage.

Feedback that is viewed as an opportunity to adjust your aim becomes a powerful way to leverage experience.

The stronger you feel about an issue or event, the more emotions are involved. Examine whether the emotions are positive or negative. Positive emotions fuel positive and lasting change.

Ask yourself, "Am I disappointed in the results or lack of effort I put into getting the results?"

By focusing on what your experiences teach you, you are leveraging the process of learning.

What you learn from your mistakes is more useful than learning not to make mistakes.

Doing something the way it has always been done without determining whether the results are the desired results is fool hearted.

Blame, judgment and comparing ourselves to others excuses us from being accountable for our actions or inactions.

When you are stuck in a state of indecision, take a position and find evidence to support it. When you struggle to defend that position, your resistance indicates change is necessary for you to move forward.

Leveraging change involves seeing the gap between your current situation and the desired destination as planks in a bridge instead of a jump across the Grand Canyon. Move forward, one step at a time and adjust your position.

Being unfocused is like being lost in the woods and walking in circles. To see where you need to go, slowly move one degree at a time until you discover your destination.

Thought for Today

Give whatever you are doing 

and whoever you are 

with the gift of 

your attention.

Jim Rohn

Thought for the Day

 

Don't wish it were easier,

wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Thought for the day

Time is more value than money.

You can get more money, but

you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Good men must not

obey the laws too well.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson,

writer and philosopher (1803-1882)