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shots you don't take

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."

~ Wayne Gretzky

Golden Rule

I'am possible

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I'm possible!"

~ Audrey Hepburn

Great and Little men

Eminent posts make great men greater, and little men less. 

-Jean de La Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)

clear conscience or...

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
-Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)

didn't .... enough

The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. 

-Ted Hughes, poet (1930-1998)

the hard fact...

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. 

-Dallas Pratt, psychiatrist (1914-1994)

die & life courageously

The politician wants men to know how to die courageously; the poet wants men to live courageously. 

-Salvatore Quasimodo, poet, Nobel laureate (1901-1968)

..sociery to impress

Build Better

Water....

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist. 

-Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959)

What if... vs. Even if

...begins with

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."

~ Harriet Tubman

...do what it does

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

~ Sam Levenson

....story of

Happy 80th Independence Day

Jai Hind

Sour & Sweet

There are none so sour as those who are sweet to order. 

-Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, essayist (1715-1747)

without & with reason

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. 

-James Randi, magician and scientific skeptic (1928-2020)

...capable of doing new

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered. 

-Jean Piaget, psychologist (1896-1980)

...Courage to Continue ..Counts

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

~ Winston Churchill

Won't dim...

...to avoid war

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
-Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893)

If work is waiting, value is leaking.

Products create value only when they are moving through the process.
Every minute spent waiting increases lead time without adding value.

...unique you

"Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you."

~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

...courage to pursue

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

~ Walt Disney

Electricity from Rain

What an idea.... Sir ji

Stop guessing. Start observing.

Assumptions often lead to the wrong solutions and repeated problems.
Direct observation reveals the reality of the process and the true source of waste.

.....can fail to endanger?

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
-Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (1805-1859)

Kind & warm

Kind words, kind looks, kind acts, and warm hand-shakes, -- these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles. 

-John Hall, pastor (1829-1898)

Carrying your mistakes?