Memory Spots : 2024

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date.

..no compassion?

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

-Anne McCaffrey, writer (1926-2011)

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

-Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)

Baby shoes...

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

-John Updike, writer (1932-2009)

good forgivers!

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

-Robert Quillen, journalist and cartoonist (1887-1948)

String of experiences

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

-Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

mother of truth

Silence is the mother of truth.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Beautiful numbers...

Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

-Paul Erdos, mathematician (1913-1996)

Foundation...

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

-William Morris, designer, poet, and novelist (1834-1896)

Education Vs ignorance

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

-Derek Bok, lawyer and educator (b. 22 Mar 1930)

Who knows...

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

- Woodrow Wilson

Best to give...

It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

-Philip Roth, novelist (1933-2018)

Became...

In their youth both Herder and Schiller intended to study as surgeons, but Destiny said: "No, there are deeper wounds than those of the body, - heal the deeper!" and they wrote.

-Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

..is something

The secret of happiness is something to do.

- John Burroughs

others to join

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

-Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court justice (1933-2020)

If you love real deep..

...biggest problems

For 50 million years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we're adjusting.
-Penn Jillette, magician, actor, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author (b. 5 Mar 1955)

...as flashes

Creativity -- like human life itself -- begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: "And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!" It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

-Julia Cameron, artist, author, teacher, filmmaker, composer, and journalist (b. 4 Mar 1948)

Affirm ... not prohibit

Nature's laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

- Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)

getting mastery

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

- Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)

...merely for themselves

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

-Gene Fowler, journalist and author (1890-1960)

Taxes for civilized...

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)

mind with mind...

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

-William Godwin, philosopher and novelist (1756-1836)

Positive Mindset and Resonant Optimism

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

March ahead....

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Exceptional Time Management

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."

- Brian Tracy

Curiosity and Continuous Learning

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

- Albert Einstein

Confident Conviction

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."

- Zig Ziglar

Adaptability and Resilience

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

Empathetic Communication

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

Relentless Determination

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

little madness...

A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.

-Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957)

show genuine interest

"You can make more friends in two months by showing genuine interest in other people, than you can in two years trying to get other people interested in you."

- Dale Carnegie, from How to Win Friends + Influence People

At first, and at end

"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end."
–Robin Sharma

Bad by good citizens

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

-George Jean Nathan, author and editor (1882-1958)

Vivekanandh said:

விவேகானந்தர் பொன்மொழிகள்

1. எந்த வேலையையும் தனது விருப்பத்துக்கு ஏற்றவாறு மாற்றுபவன் அறிவாளி.
2. மலை போன்ற சகிப்புத்தன்மை, இடைவிடாத முயற்சி, எல்லையற்ற நம்பிக்கை இவைதாம் நற்காரியத்தில் வெற்றி தரும்.
3. உண்மைக்காக எதையும் தியாகம் செய்யலாம்; ஆனால் எதற்காகவும் உண்மையைத் தியாகம் செய்யக்கூடாது.
4. நீங்கள் மகத்தான பணியைச் செய்யப் பிறந்தவர்கள் என்பதில் நம்பிக்கை வையுங்கள்.
5. மக்கள் என்ன வேண்டுமானாலும் சொல்லட்டும். நீங்கள் உங்களது சொந்த, உறுதியான முடிவில் பிடிப்புடன் இருங்கள்.
6. நான் எதையும் சாதிக்க வல்லவன் என்று சொல்லுங்கள். நீங்கள் உறுதியுடன் இருந்தால் பாம்பின் விஷம்கூட சக்தியற்றதாகிவிடும்.
7. நீ உன் குறிக்கோளில் வெற்றியடைய வேண்டுமானால் அதைப் பற்றிய எண்ணம் உன் உடல் முழுவதும் பரவி இருக்க வேண்டும்.
8. உங்களுக்குத் தேவையான எல்லா வலிமைகளும் உங்களுக்குள்ளேயே குடிகொண்டிருக்கின்றன என நம்புங்கள்.
9. நமது நெற்றியில் சுருக்கங்கள் விழட்டும்; ஆனால் இதயத்தில் சுருக்கம் விழவேண்டாம். ஏனெனில் இதயம் கிழடு தட்டக்கூடாது.
10. மனிதன் எந்த அளவுக்கு உயர்ந்தவனாகிறானோ அந்த அளவுக்குத் தக்கபடி அவன் கடுமையான சோதனை
களைக் கடந்து செல்லவேண்டும்.

Accelerate your results

Focusing on being happy now will dramatically accelerate your results to achieving the life of your dreams. It is the key to bouncing back higher than ever when life knocks you down.

Be happy while...

We dream, we set goals, and we create action plans to have those dreams become our reality. Yet what we miss most often is actually being happy while we are playing the game.

project and attract

Whatever you are projecting out there, is what you will attract back to you.

Manifest what we believe

We don't manifest what we want, we manifest what we believe.

(external) situation

It's not the external situation that's causing your suffering. It's your thoughts about the situation that are causing your suffering.

end up somewhere

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else.

unrealistic dreams

The most successful people on the planet have all been "unrealistic" in their dreams.

Be open to receive

Be open to receive the great things that are coming your way – right now, as you read this.

free man?

A hungry man is not a free man.

-Adlai Stevenson II, lawyer, politician, and diplomat (1900-1965)

stop, reflect and...

The fastest way to get the wheels in motion and achieve all you desire in life is to stop, reflect, and set an intention.

Influence of habit

turn things around

No matter where you are in your life right now, you can turn things around fast and achieve your wildest dreams.

doing all ...

"I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work – which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning."
– Alton Brown, celebrity chef

Delegate or abdicate

"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
– Marlene Dietrich, actress

taking care of

Take care of the client, and the business will take care of itself.

- Charles B Johnson

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speaks for...

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

- Henry J. Kaiser

B.S.

Everyone has a belief system, B.S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B.S. too seriously, especially your own.

-Robert Anton Wilson, novelist (1932-2007)

Valley vs Hills

The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills.

-Ethan Allen, revolutionary (1738-1789)

...for both

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

-Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)

just is cruel

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

-Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)

make a positive difference

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
- Andre Gide

Absence of flaw...

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

-Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)

...not changing one's

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

-William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)

half...?

Half the truth is often a great lie.

-Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

think for yourself

One of the greatest habits for success in your work life (as well as in your personal world) is to think for yourself.

- Elon Musk

...attract back

"Whatever you project out into the world is what you'll attract back to you."

- Natalie Ledwell

amount of security

The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

-Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), historian (1834-1902)

freedom of expression

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

-Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist

Allows oppression?

He who allows oppression, shares the crime.

-Erasmus Darwin, physician, scientist, reformer, and poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin (1731-1802)

1 < 100

Some are guilty, but all are responsible.

-Abraham Joshua Heschel, rabbi and professor (1907-1972)

1 > 100

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

-English Proverb

why to stop at...?

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

- Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (29 Dec 1876-1973)

......is to prevent

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

-George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959)

Writing is like

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

-Edna O'Brien, writer (b. 15 Dec 1930)

...are burned

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

-Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, and essayist (1797-1856)

getting & get old

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

- George Burns

what's right

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

...don't take everything away

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)

Saddest words...

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

-John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)

Life has value

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.

-Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (1908-1986)

...ought to

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

think...create

"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."

- Buddha

Solutions Vs. Problems

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

round the corner

Still round the corner there may wait, / a new road or a secret gate.

-J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (1892-1973)

Status quo

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

-Max Eastman, journalist and poet (1883-1969)

Simple & complex

"It's the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it's the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways."

- Naval Ravikant

...hatching a plot

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

-J.D. Salinger, writer (1919-2010)

Art of counseling

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

-Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (1601-1658)

No means.... Change

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

For this Day:

a supreme lesson my mother taught me:

- Robin Sharma

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.- Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
- Andre Gide