"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort."
-Charles J. Givens
For this Day:
Starting stage
On the right track?
"Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?"
-Vernon Howard
Sowing a seed
"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (26 Apr 1889-1951)
Sense of where and why
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
-Eddie Cantor
The beginnings...
"The rain begins with a single drop."
-Manal al-Sharif, human rights activist (b. 25 Apr 1979)
Dare and dare again
"Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb."
-William Thackeray
William Shakespeare
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
-William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
Steering the earth
"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Needs & greed
"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
- Mohandas Gandhi
Same person??
"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."
-James G. Bilkey
Worst troubles
"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came."
- James A Garfield
Perfect measures
"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."
- Mahatma Gandhi
State it clearly
"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly."
- Anton Chekhov
Abilities & Talents
"Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others."
- Marianne Williamson
Adore and hate
"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
-Pietro Aretino, satirist and dramatist (20 Apr 1492-1556)
Late and later
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
-Fred Brooks, computer scientist (b. 19 Apr 1931)
Work for your dream
"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."
-Richard Bach
Language goes into
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
-Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (1918-2013)
Helping next generation
"If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome."
- Gina Rinehart
Wide world
"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."
-Frances Willard
Real Progress
"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
-Doug Firebaugh
Requirement of learning...
Friend indeed
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Aristotle
Don't have Time
"I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one."
- Blaise Pascal
Line between work and play
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
-Arnold J. Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
Waiting to be writter
"I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written."
– Paulo Coelho
Intelligence, Stupidity and Ego
Art of Writing
"Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions."
– Paulo Coelho
Killing acts
"Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts..."
- Robert Fulghum
Talking about yourself?
"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."
-Wilson Mizner, playwright
Art of talking
"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself." - Stephen Fry
Fastest return
"In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment."
- Masayoshi Son
Be blind & be deaf
"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Walk in their shoes
"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes."
- Elvis Presley
Can't resist
"For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Forget like a child
"Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred."
- Swami Sivananda
Happy Birthday W.Wordsworth
"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
-William Wordsworth (7 Apr 1770-1850)
Conscience is...
-Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794)
Wrong Questions Vs Right Questions
Moral life
"True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation."
- Fulton Sheen
Time to...
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
- Bruce Lee
Sharpening the saw
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
- Edmud Burke
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
"To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights."
-André Maurois, author (1885-1967)
Missing connection
"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."
-Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)