You don't just stumble into the future.
You create your own future.
–Roger Smith
A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
"When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion."
- Abraham Lincoln
Thought for Today
"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A Thought for Today
"If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed."
-Deepak Chopra
A Thought for Today
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
-Henry Ford
Thought for Today : Fear
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is wrong life.
All the negative thoughts & ideas in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
-Swami Vivekananda
A Thought for Today
"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."
–Robert Collier
A Thought for Today
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
-James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)
Thought for Today
"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement"
–Claude M. Bristol
A Thought for Today
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
-Olive Schreiner, author (1855-1920)
A Thought for Today
"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."
- Eric Hoffer
Last day? - Steve Jobs
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
- Steve Jobs
Thought for Today
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Power of Acceptance
Powerful Lesson
The Power of Acceptance
When someone is doing something or is about to do something, in a way we don't want it to be done and when we are not able to accept it, we become angry.
However, when someone is doing something or is about to do something, in a way we don't want it to be done – and we are able to accept it – We remain tolerant.
When someone has something which we don't have, or someone is able to produce the results which we are not able to produce – and we are not able to accept it – we become jealous.
When someone has something which we don't have or someone is able to produce the results which we are not able to produce and we are able to accept it we get inspired.
When Someone is present in our thoughts, but if not physically present and we are not able to accept it – We say 'I am missing you'.
When someone is present in our thoughts, but not physically present – and we are able to accept it – We say 'I am thinking of you'.
Then the emotional equation is quite simple:
Something + Acceptance = Positive Emotion
Something + Non Acceptance = Negative Emotion
So, it is not 'Something' or 'someone' that is making us feel positive or negative, but it is our 'acceptance' or 'non acceptance' of something or someone, which is making us feel positive or negative.
It isn't the world but the quality of our response to the world (acceptance or non acceptance) that determines the quality of our emotions.
Next time we feel disturbed with a negative emotion, instead of asking who or what is disturbing us, we will examine who or what we are resisting (not accepting) that is causing this disturbance in us.
We will replace resistance (non acceptance) with acceptance, and the negative emotion will turn into a positive one.
Emotional management begins when we stop blaming that 'something' or 'someone' and start taking the responsibility to respond to life with 'acceptance'
Thought for Today
Gold medals aren't really made of gold.
They're made
of
sweat,
determination,
and
a
hard-to-find alloy
called
guts.
-Dan Gable
DELICIOUS REPARTEE
DELICIOUS REPARTEE
Though we have read many of these before, one never tires of reading them once more!
1. Thomas Reed vs. Henry Clay
2. Winston Churchill vs. Lady Astor
3. NYC Mayor Ed Koch vs. Andrew Kirtzman, after the reporter insisted on pressing a point about an inconsistent statement Koch had made
4. Groucho Marx vs. a contestant on "You Bet Your Life," after the contestant revealed that he was a father of 10
5. Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas, after Douglas called him "two-faced" during a debate
6. Pierre Trudeau vs. Richard Nixon, upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole
8. Oscar Wilde vs. Lewis Morris… Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship
9. Miriam Hopkins vs. an anonymous singer
10. James McNeill Whistler vs. Oscar Wilde, after Whistler had made a particularly witty observation
11. Senator Fritz Hollings vs. Henry McMastor, when challenged by his Republican opponent during a televised debate to take a drug test
12. Bill Clinton vs. Dan Quayle, after Quayle revealed that he planned to be "a pit bull" in the 1992 campaign against Clinton and Gore
13. Reverend Edward Everett Hale vs. the U.S. Senate, when asked if he prayed for the Senators.
14. Edna Ferber vs. Noel Coward… Coward was remarking upon the fact that Ferber was wearing a tailored suit
15. Henry Clay vs. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster after seeing a pack of mules walk by
16. Winston Churchill vs. a Member of Parliament
17. Calvin Coolidge vs. some random lady at a White House dinner
18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart vs. an admirer
"One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors."
Plato
A Thought for Today
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen"
–Elinor Smith
Thought for Today
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
- Mark Twain
A Thought for Today
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
-Galileo
A Thought for Today
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
-Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (1911-2004)
Thought for Today
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
-Karl Marx
A Thought for Today
"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
-Maya Angelou
A Thought for Today
"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body."
-Mahatma Gandhi
Thought for Today
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
-John Leonard, critic (1939-2008)
Thought for Today
"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." - Dalai Lama
A Thought for Today
"Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish."
-Tiger Woods
Thought for Today
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
-Dwight D Eisenhower
H R
After 2 years of selfless service, a man realized that he has not been promoted, no transfer, no salary increment, no commendation. So he decided to walk up to his HR Manager.
His manager looked at him, smiled and asked him to sit down saying:
His manager looked at him, smiled and asked him to sit down saying:
"My friend you have not worked here for even a single day." The man was surprised to hear this, but the manager went on to explain.
Manager:
How many days are there in a year?
Man:
365 days and sometimes 366.
Manager:
How many hours make up a day?
Man:
24 Hours.
Manager:
How long do u work in a day?
Man:
10am to 6pm i.e 8 hours a day.
Manager:
So, what fraction of the day do u work in hours?
Man:
He did some arithmetic and said 8/24 i.e 1/3 (one third).
Manager:
This is nice of u! what is 1/3rd of 366 days?
Man:
122(1/3 x 366=122 in days).
Manager:
Do u come to work on weekends?
Man:
No sir.
Manager:
How many days r there in a year that r weekends?
Man:
52 Saturdays and 52 Sundays equals to 104 days.
Manager:
Thanks for that. If u remove 104 days from 122 days. how many days do u now have?
Man:
18 days.
Manager:
I do give u 2 weeks sick leave every year. Now remove that 14 days from the 18 days left. How many days do u have remaining?
Man:
4 days.
Manager:
Do u work on Republic Day?
Man:
No sir!
Manager:
Do u come to work on Independence Day?
Man:
No sir!
Manager:
So how many days r left?
Man:
2 days Sir!
Manager:
Do u come to work on New Years Day?
Man:
No sir!
Manager:
So how many days r left?
Man:
1 day sir!
Manager:
Do u work on Christmas Day?
Man:
No Sir!
Manager:
So how many days r left?
Man:
None Sir!
Manager:
So what r u claiming?
Man:!!!
Moral:
NEVER GO TO HR FOR HELP!
HR - HIGH RISK.
Manager:
How many days are there in a year?
Man:
365 days and sometimes 366.
Manager:
How many hours make up a day?
Man:
24 Hours.
Manager:
How long do u work in a day?
Man:
10am to 6pm i.e 8 hours a day.
Manager:
So, what fraction of the day do u work in hours?
Man:
He did some arithmetic and said 8/24 i.e 1/3 (one third).
Manager:
This is nice of u! what is 1/3rd of 366 days?
Man:
122(1/3 x 366=122 in days).
Manager:
Do u come to work on weekends?
Man:
No sir.
Manager:
How many days r there in a year that r weekends?
Man:
52 Saturdays and 52 Sundays equals to 104 days.
Manager:
Thanks for that. If u remove 104 days from 122 days. how many days do u now have?
Man:
18 days.
Manager:
I do give u 2 weeks sick leave every year. Now remove that 14 days from the 18 days left. How many days do u have remaining?
Man:
4 days.
Manager:
Do u work on Republic Day?
Man:
No sir!
Manager:
Do u come to work on Independence Day?
Man:
No sir!
Manager:
So how many days r left?
Man:
2 days Sir!
Manager:
Do u come to work on New Years Day?
Man:
No sir!
Manager:
So how many days r left?
Man:
1 day sir!
Manager:
Do u work on Christmas Day?
Man:
No Sir!
Manager:
So how many days r left?
Man:
None Sir!
Manager:
So what r u claiming?
Man:!!!
Moral:
NEVER GO TO HR FOR HELP!
HR - HIGH RISK.
A Thought for Today
"I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls."
-Henry David Thoreau
A Thought for Today
"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."
-Swami Vivekananda
A Thought for Today
"You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end."
-David Roads
No Time
Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.
-Margaret Visser, writer and broadcaster (b. 1940)
Thought for Today
"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities."
Napoleon Bonaparte
A Thought for Today
"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit"
– Aristotle
Thought for Today
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
-Mark Twain
A Thought for Today
"No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes."
-Paulo Coelho
A Thought for Today
"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
- George Bernard Shaw
Thought for Today
We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.
-Lawrence Durrell, novelist, poet, and playwright (1912-1990)
Thought for Today
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."
-Lou Holtz
A Thought for Today
"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."
-Winston Churchill
Thought for Today
"I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts."
- John D Rockefeller
Teachers Day Wishes
ஆசிரியர் தினம்
1888-ஆம் ஆண்டு செப்டம்பர் 5-ஆம் தேதி டாக்டர் எஸ்.ராதாகிருஷ்ணன் பிறந்தார். அவர் கல்லூரிப் படிப்பை முடித்ததும் வெளிநாட்டுக்கு மேற்படிப்புக்காகச் சென்றார். படித்து முடிந்ததும் இங்கிலாந்தில் உள்ள ஆக்ஸ்போர்ட் பல்கலைக் கழகத்தில் பேராசிரியராகப் பணி புரிந்தார். அப்போது அவருடைய திறமை, புத்திக்கூர்மை, நிர்வாகத் திறமை ஆகியவற்றைக் கண்ட அறிஞர் ஒருவர், அமெரிக்காவின் உட்ரோ வில்சன் பேராசிரியர் பதவியிலிருந்து ஜனாதிபதி பதவிக்கு உயர்ந்தது போல ராதாகிருஷ்ணனும் உயர்வார் என்று கூறினார். அவர் கூறியது போலவே நடந்தது.
1950-ஆம் ஆண்டு டாக்டர் சர்வபள்ளி ராதாகிருஷ்ணன் இந்தியாவின் துணை குடியரசுத் தலைவரானார். பின்னர் 1962-ஆம் ஆண்டு இந்தியாவின் இரண்டாவது குடியரசுத் தலைவரானார். ஆயினும் அவர் ஒரு பேராசிரியர் போல உடை அணிவதை வழக்கமாகக் கொண்டிருந்தார். அவருடைய பிறந்த தினமான செப்டம்பர் 5-ஆம் தேதி ஆசிரியர் தினமாகக் கொண்டாடப்படுகிறது.
இந்திய நாட்டின் தத்துவ ஞானியாகப் போற்றப்பட்ட முன்னாள் குடியரசுத் தலைவர் டாக்டர் எஸ்.ராதாகிருஷ்ணன் "தி ஹிந்து வ்யூ ஆஃப் லைஃப் அண்ட் இண்டியன் ஃபிளாஸபி' உட்பட 18 நூல்களை எழுதியுள்ளார்.
1954-ஆம் ஆண்டு "பாரத ரத்னா' விருது வழங்கப்பட்டது. 1975 வரை வாழ்ந்த டாக்டர் எஸ்.ராதாகிருஷ்ணன் இறுதிவரை நாட்டு நலனுக்காகவும் கல்விப்பணிக்காகவும் பலப் பல அரிய செயல்களைச் செய்துள்ளார்.
A Thought for Today
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
-John C. Maxwell
-John C. Maxwell
Thought for Today
"If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow?"
– Yusuf Tara
– Yusuf Tara
A Thought for Today
"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
-Peter Drucker
-Peter Drucker
Thought for Today
"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."
- Swami Vivekananda
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