"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
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...
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
-Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012)
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
Intelligence is like an underwear, you should have it but not to show it.
Stupidity is like a bra, even with attempts to hide it, it shows up.
Ego is like your bums. You can't see it but others can and you keep noticing only other people's.
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...
Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
-Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794)
-Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794)
Wrong Questions Vs Right Questions
"There was a moment, when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain and suffering and vile things happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions."
-From the movie 'American History X' (1998)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)
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