October 2014

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking,” Albert Einstein.

“Never negotiate out of fear but never fear to negotiate” — John F. Kennedy.

The Hindu caste system is the greatest glorification of snobbery that the world has ever known’ -- JBS Haldane

Make mistakes!!! The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake-you can’t learn anything from being perfect  - ADAM OSBORNE .

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence. — Thich Nhat Hanh

"From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable." -- Salman Rushdie

"In a day, when you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling in the wrong path." -- Swami Vivekananda

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try to sleep in a closed room with a mosquito." -- Anon

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” -- Reinhold Niebuhr's prayer

Ford - Nothing particularly hard

Deming - Data

MKG - Be the Change

Focus

TR - Feet on the ground

HST - Taking Credit

MKG - Finding Yourself

RWE

September 2014

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Henry David Thoreau

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. - Oliver Goldsmith

Without data you are just another person with an opinion. -- W. Edwards Deming

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~Mahatma Gandh

 T.E. Lawrence – “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream in the dark recesses of the night awake in the day to find all was vanity. But the dreamers of day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, and make it possible.”

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. ~ Tony Robbins

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
- Douglas Everett

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. ? Albert Einstein

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievement... But when it is wasted...and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short...Life is long if you know how to use it - Seneca the Young, 4 B.C.

When you talk you are only repeating what you know; But when you listen you may learn something new.
- Dalai Lama

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -Calvin Coolidige

June - 2014

You have not lived today unless you do something for someone who can never repay you. -- John Bunyan

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. -Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)

Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration. -Igor Stravinsky, composer (1882-1971)

The body is itself a mere projection of the mind, and the mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. -Allen Ginsberg, poet (1926-1997)

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964)

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

Feb., 2014

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. -Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)

I and the public know. 

What all schoolchildren learn. 

Those to whom evil is done. 

Do evil in return -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1809-1865)

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Jan., 2014

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. ~Donald H. Rumsfeld

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries -- Aldous Huxley

I am so stunned by my prosperity that my happiness has begun to make me anxious -- Urdu Couplet

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. -Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

Aey naey saal bata tujh mein naya kya hai? Har taraf khalq ne kiyun shor macha rakha hai, Roshni din ki wahi, Taron bhari raat wohi, Aaj humko nazar aati hai har baat wohi, Aasman badla hai na badli hai afsurda zameen, Aik hinsey ka badalna koi jiddat to nahi, Pichley barson ki tarha honge qareeney teray, Be sabab detay hain kiyun log mubarak badein, Sub kya bhool gaye waqt ki karrwi yadein, Tu naya hai to dikha subha nai, sham nai, Werna in aankhon ne deikhay hain naey saal kai. (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

Dec., 2013

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE)

All teaching is but a finger pointing to the moon; and if you keep looking at the finger you will never see the moon - Zen Koan

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius

Little things comfort us because little things distress us - Pascal, Pensées

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” ― Paulo Coelho

There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Gandhiji

"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." Nelson Mandela

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out - Churchill