Hard is What makes it Great
Of course it’s Hard. It’s supposed to be Hard If it were Easy, everybody would Do it. Hard is What makes it Great”
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how Small you are
Shortly before jumping, in footage beamed live around the world – on a crackly radio link recalling Neil Armstrong’s first words on the Moon, said Felix Baumgartner, Sometimes you have [to go] up really high to [understand] how small you are.”…
All our dreams can come true
All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney
You don’t get paid money for losing
You don’t get paid money for losing. You get paid money for winning. And winning is a lot better than losing. I’d rather be second or first than twenty-sixth.” SIMON COWELL, television entertainment mogul,…
There is this lingering sense among workers
There’s this lingering sense among workers that they’re in a dangerous place.” – AURET VAN HEERDEN, president and chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, on conditions inside factories of manufacturing giant…
We can do what we are good at
We can’t do everything ourselves, but we can do what we’re good at.” – THORSTEN HEINS, chief executive of Research in Motion; the BlackBerry maker is pulling back from trying to compete…
It is not so much our triumph as a triumph
It is not so much our triumph as a triumph of the people who have decided that they have to be involved in the political process in this country. “ - AUNG…
You can’t turn the wind so turn the sail
Our discussions focused on the core objectives of this process, the immediate stop to the violence and the killing, access for humanitarian agencies and the start of a political dialogue. The realistic response…
Confucius – Chapter 1: Learning
學而篇 學而時習之、不亦說乎。有朋自遠方來、不亦樂乎。人不知而不慍、不亦君子乎。 Isn’t it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn’t it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when his greatness is not…
Love and Peace are Eternal
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that…
Be Happy, Now
We have only this moment, sparking like a star in our hand…and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. Marie Beynon Now and then it’s good to…
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are…
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.”
Four a-gati, the four kinds of Corruption
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. Most Burmese are…
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on…
Continuous effort…
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
You must not lose faith in humanity
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Gandhi : His Life and Message for…
We all learn by imitating
Sony Founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend…
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money
Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it…
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of…
On every street in every city, there’s a nobody …
On every street in every city, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody”
Life is sacred…
The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is…
… With our thoughts we make the world
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”
The truth is always something that is told, not…
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”
You tend to get told that the world is the way it …
You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that…
Being authentic in your thoughts and voice is the …
Being authentic in your thoughts and voice is the only way to survive the test of time.”
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States,…
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,…
