Memory Spots : November 2017

Spend it for...

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

~ Carl Sandburg

Get ahead of....

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."

~ Stewart B. Johnson

Good End

A good beginning makes a good end.

- Louis L'Amour

When the victory is won

If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

-Louisa May Alcott, writer and reformist (29 Nov 1832-1888)

Determine Success

Self-image determines self-esteem,

self-esteem determines priorities,

and priorities determine success.

Improve the world by doing those things that legitimately boost your self-image and that of others.

-Clarence E. Hodges

Contribution to the world

When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.
-Andrew Granatelli

...of success

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

- Salvador Dali 

Fall season

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
-Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)

Knowing vs Doing

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
~ Booker T. Washington

Telling The Truth

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

Service to others

To me, success is not something to be measured in power or fortune or fame. I believe a life of service to others is a successful life.

-Gerald R. Ford

Peace...peace

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
-William Cowper, poet (1731-1800)

Interfere with...

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
– John Wooden

Route to success

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

- Stephen A. Brennan

Slave defined

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

- Robert Herrick 

Recipe for success

What is the recipe for successful achievement?

To my mind there are just four essential ingredients:

Choose a career you love,

give it the best there is in you,

seize your opportunities, and

be a member of the team.

-Benjamin F. Fairless

Expending vs produce

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

Winning is...

Winning doesn't always mean being first.
- Bonnie Lair

Can do

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
– John Wooden

Sound of your own

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

-Keith Degreen

ஆண் – அறிவின் அம்சம்.
ஆண் – ஆளுமை விளக்கம்.
ஆண் – இயல்பே வீரம்.
ஆண் – ஈவின் ஈரம்.
ஆண் – உறுதியின் தீரம்.
ஆண் – ஊழின் ஊழ்.
ஆண் – எரி தீ உழைப்பு.
ஆண் – ஏர் முனைக் காப்பு.
ஆண் – ஒருங்கு சேர் பிணைப்பு.
ஆண் – ஓய்விலா இயக்கம்.
ஆண் – ஔவியம் போற்றான்.

ஆம் – அஃதே ஆணின் அருமை!!

The second source

"Never depend on single income. Make investments to create a second source."
- Warren Buffett

Drives the winter out

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo

Master your Life

Time = Life.

Therefore,

waste your time and waste of your life,

master your time and master your life.

~ Alan Lakein

Create more...

A wise person will create more opportunities than he finds.
~ Francis Bacon

Become...

Through others, we become ourselves.
-Lev Vygotsky, psychologist (17 Nov 1896-1934)

Measuring success

Success is not measured by what you do in comparison to others.

It is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

Repeat year after year...

"It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings."

~ Ernest Hemingway

Game On

Most games are lost, not won.

-Casey Stengel

New Action...

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
- Richard L. Evans

Own unique solution

Develop a Growth Mindset Every Problem has its own Unique Solution.

Tests of integrity

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
- Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (1930-2013)

Imaginary with real

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

-Marianne Moore, poet (15 Nov 1887-1972)

T20

Hindsight is always
twenty-twenty.
- Billy Wilder

Problems & Progress

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem…. Problems are like landmarks of progress.
-Scott Alexander

Apply energies

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

- Thomas A. Edison

Make dreams come true

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

- Paul Valery 

Persistence is...

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
-Herbert Kaufman

Postponed success

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition.
-Herbert Kaufman

Critics - Stink like

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
~ Phyllis McGinley

Absent before change

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

-Earl Nightingale

Strength to emerge

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller

"MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY."

One of my friend told me:

Germany is a highly industrialized country. In such a country, many will think its people lead a luxurious life.

When we arrived at Hamburg , my colleagues walked into the restaurant, we noticed that a lot of tables were empty. There was a table where a young couple was having their meal. There were only two dishes and two cans of beer on the table. I wondered if such simple meal could be romantic, and whether the girl will leave this stingy guy.

There were a few old ladies on another table. When a dish is served, the waiter would distribute the food for them, and they would finish every bit of the food on their plates.

As we were hungry, our local colleague ordered more food for us.When we left, there was still about one third of un-consumed food on the table.

When we were leaving the restaurant, the old ladies spoke to us in English, we understood that they were unhappy about us wasting so much food.

"We paid for our food, it is none of your business how much food we left behind," my colleague told the old ladies. The old ladies were furious. One of them immediately took her hand phone out and made a call to someone. After a while, a man in uniform from Social Security organisation arrived. Upon knowing what the dispute was, he issued us a 50 Euro fine. We all kept quiet.

The officer told us in a stern voice, "ORDER WHAT YOU CAN CONSUME, MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY. THERE ARE MANY OTHERS IN THE WORLD WHO ARE FACING SHORTAGE OF RESOURCES. YOU HAVE NO REASON TO WASTE RESOURCES."

The mindset of people of this rich country put all of us to shame. WE REALLY NEED TO REFLECT ON THIS. We are from country which is not very rich in resources. To save face, we order large quantity and also waste food when we give others a treat.
(Courtesy: A friend who is now changed a lot)

VERY TRUE -"MONEY IS YOURS BUT RESOURCES BELONG TO THE SOCIETY."

Time will reveal

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

-Sri Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)

Absence of

Taste of success

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-Orison Swett Marden

Don't stop trying...

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.
-Frank Burford