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LOOK BACKWARDS WITH GRATITUDE, UPWARDS WITH CONFIDENCE
AND FORWARD WITH HOPE


"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend four sharpening my axe."
~Abraham Lincoln.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything has a beauty but not everyone sees it!

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.
-- Unknown

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I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded
pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated".
-- Ken Thompson (co-inventor of Unix OS)
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Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.
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Music(al) thoughs.. :-)

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
- Zimbabwe Proverb

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force
behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of
musical perception.
(When asked about his theory of relativity)
- Albert Einstein

There is geometry in the humming of the strings,
there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
- Pythagoras

Music: M(morality) U (universality) S (sincerity) I (individuality) C (creativity)
- MD Ramanathan :-)

Churchill's words

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From Winston Churchill
http://www.quotationspage.com/special.php3?file=w980510
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"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Speech made to House of Commons on May 13, 1940, three days after becoming Prime Minister.

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."
Speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
Speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
Speech delivered to the House of Commons on June 18, 1940 following the collapse of France

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Speech given at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942.

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
Speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
My Early Life - 1930

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Motivation : About Worry and Happiness

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
Charles Schultz

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep."
Dale Carnegie

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."
Captain J. A. Hadfield

"Don't worry about things that you have no control over, because you have no control over them. Don't worry about things that you have control over, because you have control over them."
Mickey Rivers

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
Olin Miller

"When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves."
Henry Ford

"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."
G. C. Lichtenberg

"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."
Henry Wheeler Shaw

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
Ovid

"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil."
Dale Carnegie

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
Mary Hemingway


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general collection

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"A leader can climb mountains, but only a team can move one" - Anonymous

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"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms
when his hands are empty." - (Unknown)

Anticipation is one of the keys to enjoying life.
Don't be in such a hurry that you don't take time to anticipate your rewards.

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The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and
convenience but how he stands at times of conterversy and challenge.
-Martin Luther King-Jr

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts

Seeing much, suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of learning. - Benjamin Disraeli

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante


Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success.


Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.


Yesterday is a canceled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.


Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.


Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.



Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.


He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.


Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around in his pocket. The more he has, the more they weigh him down.


The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication


The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.


Dare to dream big dreams. If there is anything to the law of expectation, then we're moving in the direction of our dreams, goals and expectations.



Never quit when you experience a setback or frustration. Success could be just around the corner.



Live fully in the present moment. When you live in the past or the future you aren't able to make things happen in the present.



Train yourself to finish what you start. So many of us become scattered as we try to accomplish a task. Finish one task before you begin another.



Choose to be happy. Happy people are easily motivated. Happiness is your birthright so don't settle for anything else.


Don't indulge in self-limiting thinking. Think empowering, expansive thoughts.


Be willing to leave your comfort zone. The greatest barrier to achieving your potential is your comfort zone. Great things happen when you make friends with your discomfort zone.


Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Wisdom helps us avoid making mistakes and comes from making a million of them.


"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. " - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. " - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943


"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. " - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977


"640K ought to be enough for anybody. " - Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981


"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. " - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)


"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910)


"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)


You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.


"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

First 'thoughts' archive

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"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
-- Weinberg's Second Law
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Lies affect other people but not more than they affect you.
It's your truth that you are denying.

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" If we fail to foresee the unforeseen, and expect the unexpected in
the universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the
mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily
referenced."
- Mulder
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One half of knowing what you want, is knowing what you
must give up before you get it.

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Being a hypocrite is more work than being your Self.

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You never have to start from scratch to build a brand new you.
Take the knowledge you've learned from life and apply it in new positive ways.

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Words you speak can be your best attribute or your worst weapon.
It's up to you on how you decide to use them. Remember though,
it only takes once to say the wrong thing forever.

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