Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well - inspirational quotes
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Giant pandas for the 2010 World Expo are seen at the Shanghai Zoo, January 5, 2010. Ten giant pandas selected from Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Sichuan arrived in Shanghai for a year-long display for the upcoming World Expo 2010
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi.
"The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves." - Steven Covey
This image obtained from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals shows a new PETA ad with US country singer Carrie Underwood (L), US First Lady Michelle Obama (2nd-L), with television talk show hosts Oprah Winfrey (2nd-R) and Tyra Banks (R), all who avoid the wearing of fur. The White House says PETA is using the First Lady's image without her permission
"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm." - Earl Nightingale
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the South Haven lighthouse
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."- Andre Gide
Amur tigers Sasha (front) and Dominica, mother and daughter, play in the snow at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Scotland December 29, 2009
If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.- John B. Gough
A pride of lions walk through the snow at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling Scotland, Monday Jan. 4, 2010 as temperatures continued to fall throughout Scotland. Large areas of Britain have been in the grip of cold snap for more than a week.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.-- Zig Ziglar
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
A teacher is a person who never says anything once." - Howard Nemerov
"Free men are the strongest men." - Wendell Wilkie
The Moon in Outer Space
If everybody MINDED their O W N BUSINESS... the world would go around a great deal faster than it does" ~L Carroll
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
“There is nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” - William James
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." ~ Thomas Edison
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Dennis Waitley
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of the past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings." - Ralph Blum
Friday, January 18, 2013
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Rajni's rage
Rajnikanth
Rajnikanth, the style icon and one of the most influential and bankable movie stars in Indian cinema, who is regarded as ‘demigod’ in South India, turns 59. He has acted in some 200 movies in nine languages. His mass popularity and appeal is largely drawn from his mannerisms and stylized delivery of dialogue.
Rajnikanth was born as Shivajirao Gaekwad in a Maratha family in Karnataka in 1950. He did his schooling at the Acharya Pathshala in Bangalore and then at the Vivekananda Balak Sangh, a unit of the Ramakrishna Mission. In his initial days, he struggled to fight poverty.
He began his career doing various jobs in Bangalore. He also attended a theatre for stage plays. Before starting his career in the film industry, he worked as a bus conductor for the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation in Bangalore. It was during this time that he nurtured his acting interests by performing in various stage plays. Powered by a strong desire to become an actor, Rajnikanth went to Madras, the tinsel town of Tamil Cinema.
He was helped by a friend to join the Madras Film institute and completed his acting course in 1974. Popularly referred to and credited in films as superstar and fondly called as "thalaivar" (meaning leader in Tamil), Rajnikanth debuted in Tamil films in 1975. He got his first break in Kannada movie ‘Katha Sangama’, in which he played a small role. Later he played as cancer-patient in the Tamil movie ‘Apoorva Raagangal’ (1975). This film was directed by K Balachandar, whom Rajnikanth considers his mentor, and who named him Rajnikanth.
He was later favoured in portraying antagonistic characters and gradually rose to acting in lead roles. Most of his movies during the nineties were successful, like Mannan, Padayappa, Muthu, Baashha, Annamalaiand Veera. Rajinikanth wrote his first screenplay for the film Valli. Rajnikanth has acted in over 170 films including movies in Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali. He also acted in one Hollywood movie - Bloodstone in 1988.
He has acted with notable actors like Sivaji Ganesan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Hassan, Mammooty and Sridevi. He has worked with famous directors like Mani Ratnam and Bharatiraja. Besides being an actor, Rajnikant had also involved himself in politics.
In 2000, he received India's third highest honour, the Padma Bhushan, for his work in Indian cinema. He was reportedly paid Rs. 26 crores (about $6.25 million USD) for his last blockbuster Sivaji: The Boss, making him the highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan.
Apart from a number of awards, he has also received other honours such as Raj Kapoor Award (2007) from the Government of Maharashtra, Kalaichelvam Award (1995) from the Nadigar Sangam, Oshobismit Award (1995) for Spirituality from Rajinish Ashram, MGR Award (1989) and Kalaimamani Award (1984) from the Government of Tamil Nadu. He also received India's third highest honour, the Padma Bhushan, for his contribution to Indian cinema. In 2007, he won the Best Actor award given by the Government of Tamil Nadu for his role in the film Chandramukhi (2005).
His upcoming projects include an animation film Sultan: The Warrior, which will be directed by his daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth. Rajnikanth has also been signed to work with the Sivaji team of S Shankar and AR Rahman once again for another magnum opus, an alleged science fiction thriller tentatively entitled Endhiran. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will play opposite Rajnikanth as heroine for the first time; the film is touted to be the biggest and costliest film venture yet in India.
source: Hindustan Times
Shriya
Rajni's rage
It’s almost 10 days now since its release in record number of theatres in Tamil Nadu and several other states across the country, and Rajnikanth’s Sivaji: The Boss still continues to hold the people in awe at the sheer grandeur of its production enriched by unprecedented play of the computer graphics. Not just the usual lower and middle class crowds from the thousands of fan clubs of the superstar but even the upper crust of society, including several high-paid professionals, queued up for tickets hours before the plans opened on June 10 for the much-awaited movie, widely rumoured to have cost the producers, AVM Studios, Rs 75 crores and more.
"It’s the biggest production ever released in the entire Indian movie industry," gushed A.V.M. Saravanan, the producer. "Everything about this film is grand." Industry experts were quick to point out that Sivaji carried the most potent mix ever attempted in Kollywood — Superstar Rajnikanth, Midas-touch director Shankar and the most-respected production house, AVM.
Add to that the biggest selling name in the Indian cine music, A.R. Rahman, the highly talented cinematographer K.V. Anand and the "magic-man" Thota Tharani as art director. "Sivaji will collect over Rs 100 crore and that is a very modest figure," said a Kollywood senior. "Already, the movie has led to a debate that Rajni is bigger than Big B, since this film is a hit in Telugu also, besides collecting huge sums in Karnataka and Kerala, not to forget Mumbai and the north. "We are getting requests for more prints from these states but have decided to go slow, considering options for dubbing into those languages," said an AVM official.
"Not just that, the box office statistics in the UK included Sivaji in the top 10 among recent releases and during the first 12 shows, the movie collected an average of £14,050 per show," he said. The studio is planning to dub Sivaji into Japanese — since there are many fans in Japan after his blockbuster Muthu was made some years ago — while there were enquiries for Chinese and Malay versions as well.
"I saw the late-night show of a stupid movie at the Satyam multiplex on June 9, so that I could get into the queue for Sivaji around midnight and be among the first few to get the tickets. And I found there were already 11 people ahead of me when I got to the line at 1 am," recalled Jayapal Gokul, a second-year student of engineering in Chennai.
"When I went to college that day, I was as big a hero as Rajni when I showed the tickets to friends at the canteen," he said. There were several such scenes of jubilant fans flaunting the Sivaji tickets to friends at schools and colleges, offices and IT parks. Managing a ticket became a "prestige issue", to quote a software pro, even as the theatres were flooded with special requests for block-bookings from corporate groups, IT companies and even the welfare associations of the residential colonies.
"We have not witnessed such enthusiasm for any other film. We are unable to process all the special requests for bulk tickets because the demand has been so high," said Supriya of Satyam multiplex.
"I have been in the business for over 30 years and I have not seen such crowds for any other movie. Sivaji is undoubtedly the biggest grosser ever," said Sv. Rm. Ramanathan, proprietor of the Abhirami theatres in Chennai.
Reports from the districts are no different — seats are booked days ahead. The police were flooded with complaints that blackmarketeers were making a killing, with some theatre managements too joining in.
"During the opening week, we got complaints that Rs 90 tickets were being sold at Rs 1,000 each. We have made some arrests," said a senior police official. The media was full of stories of fans performing special prayers, breaking coconuts and lighting camphor inside the theatres, bathing the Rajni banners with milk and even beer in a few cases. In short, the fan frenzy was unprecedented and refused to wane. "Smokers step out five to six times for a quick drag during any movie show, but I was shocked to find nobody in the lobbies while Sivaji was running. They did not want to miss the next scene, the film is so gripping," said Abhirami Ramanathan.
"Romba Brahmandama Irukku (It’s very grand, magnificent), commented chief minister M. Karunanidhi after seeing a special screening arranged by AVM Saravanan at his studio. Interestingly, Sivaji brought the two wives of the octogenarian Dravidian stalwart together as both Dayalu Ammal and Rajathi Ammal arrived with him, though separately, and sat in different rows to enjoy the Rajni flick.
Saravanan arranged for a special show for the AIADMK supremo Ms Jayalalithaa on the same day of the movie’s release. The heroine of yesteryears came out stunned. Rajnikanth was present during both the VIP screenings at the AVM Studios. Much later, a popular Tamil magazine gave a twist to his "hospitality" by accusing the hero of using the two top political leaders for publicity for his film.
However, Kollywood experts say Rajnikanth need not have depended on the testimonials of Karunanidhi or Jayalalithaa to promote his Sivaji. The movie has had an awesome build-up in the media from day-one after the shooting began in December 2005, thanks to strategic marketing by M.S. Guhan, son of Saravanan. "In fact, I was reluctant to produce this film when director Shankar discussed the project because it was too huge even for a production house like AVM, which has made 167 films till then over the last 61 years. But Guhan said he would be able to handle it and he has come out triumphant. Rajni himself told me that I must be proud of my son," said Saravanan. Among the "grand" spectacles that must have overawed even the seasoned AVM producer is a song shot in the now-defunct Binny Cloth Mills, done up to look like an Italian pavilion by Thota Tharani. Besides, the fight sequences — particularly the climax having the superstar bash up the villain amid thousands of flying 1000-rupee notes, not genuine though — must have cost the heavens.
In spite of all those big bills and inevitable production hiccups, if the mega project went through its schedule and hit the screen with such a bang, most of the credit must go to the hero, insisted Saravanan. "He would be on the sets before the others. He would sit and watch even when the shot did not require him. Such was his involvement and he had absolutely no airs about him despite being the superstar," he said. Did he expect Sivaji to create such hype and emerge a commercial hit? Saravanan said he had no doubt of that and the production schedule and the box office reports amply justified his confidence. Insisting that his film was blessed even before the shooting began, the producer recalled an interesting anecdote. When he got the sudden call from director Shankar saying that he was with Rajni and they would like him to come over to discuss the project, he asked his son Guhan to accompany him.
Halfway to the venue of the meeting, he thought it appropriate to pay Shankar and Rajni a token advance for accepting the film. He had two new one-rupee notes and Guhan had two fresh 1000-rupee notes, so they decided to give the director and the superstar an advance of Rs1,001 each. "Both of them did not mind the small amount considering our close association. But when we returned to office, Rajni phoned Guhan and asked how we managed to get those currency notes. The numbers in the two notes given to him added up to his lucky number nine and those given to Shankar made his favourite eight. That was providence and I knew only then that Sivaji would be a hit," recalled Saravanan.
What makes the dark-skinned 54-year-old still click with the audiences, young and old, across language and culture barriers? "Undoubtedly his hard work and commitment, besides the Rajni style of course. The stunt director had made him do what even the 25-year-olds could find tough but Rajni did well though there was some help from the computer graphics team," explained a production executive.
"More than anything else, Rajni is very religious. He has been blessed and that’s why he is the superstar," said Saravanan, recalling that the hero had chosen for his little quarters during the shooting a room with window overlooking a temple.
"It’s the biggest production ever released in the entire Indian movie industry," gushed A.V.M. Saravanan, the producer. "Everything about this film is grand." Industry experts were quick to point out that Sivaji carried the most potent mix ever attempted in Kollywood — Superstar Rajnikanth, Midas-touch director Shankar and the most-respected production house, AVM.
Add to that the biggest selling name in the Indian cine music, A.R. Rahman, the highly talented cinematographer K.V. Anand and the "magic-man" Thota Tharani as art director. "Sivaji will collect over Rs 100 crore and that is a very modest figure," said a Kollywood senior. "Already, the movie has led to a debate that Rajni is bigger than Big B, since this film is a hit in Telugu also, besides collecting huge sums in Karnataka and Kerala, not to forget Mumbai and the north. "We are getting requests for more prints from these states but have decided to go slow, considering options for dubbing into those languages," said an AVM official.
"Not just that, the box office statistics in the UK included Sivaji in the top 10 among recent releases and during the first 12 shows, the movie collected an average of £14,050 per show," he said. The studio is planning to dub Sivaji into Japanese — since there are many fans in Japan after his blockbuster Muthu was made some years ago — while there were enquiries for Chinese and Malay versions as well.
"I saw the late-night show of a stupid movie at the Satyam multiplex on June 9, so that I could get into the queue for Sivaji around midnight and be among the first few to get the tickets. And I found there were already 11 people ahead of me when I got to the line at 1 am," recalled Jayapal Gokul, a second-year student of engineering in Chennai.
"When I went to college that day, I was as big a hero as Rajni when I showed the tickets to friends at the canteen," he said. There were several such scenes of jubilant fans flaunting the Sivaji tickets to friends at schools and colleges, offices and IT parks. Managing a ticket became a "prestige issue", to quote a software pro, even as the theatres were flooded with special requests for block-bookings from corporate groups, IT companies and even the welfare associations of the residential colonies.
"We have not witnessed such enthusiasm for any other film. We are unable to process all the special requests for bulk tickets because the demand has been so high," said Supriya of Satyam multiplex.
"I have been in the business for over 30 years and I have not seen such crowds for any other movie. Sivaji is undoubtedly the biggest grosser ever," said Sv. Rm. Ramanathan, proprietor of the Abhirami theatres in Chennai.
Reports from the districts are no different — seats are booked days ahead. The police were flooded with complaints that blackmarketeers were making a killing, with some theatre managements too joining in.
"During the opening week, we got complaints that Rs 90 tickets were being sold at Rs 1,000 each. We have made some arrests," said a senior police official. The media was full of stories of fans performing special prayers, breaking coconuts and lighting camphor inside the theatres, bathing the Rajni banners with milk and even beer in a few cases. In short, the fan frenzy was unprecedented and refused to wane. "Smokers step out five to six times for a quick drag during any movie show, but I was shocked to find nobody in the lobbies while Sivaji was running. They did not want to miss the next scene, the film is so gripping," said Abhirami Ramanathan.
"Romba Brahmandama Irukku (It’s very grand, magnificent), commented chief minister M. Karunanidhi after seeing a special screening arranged by AVM Saravanan at his studio. Interestingly, Sivaji brought the two wives of the octogenarian Dravidian stalwart together as both Dayalu Ammal and Rajathi Ammal arrived with him, though separately, and sat in different rows to enjoy the Rajni flick.
Saravanan arranged for a special show for the AIADMK supremo Ms Jayalalithaa on the same day of the movie’s release. The heroine of yesteryears came out stunned. Rajnikanth was present during both the VIP screenings at the AVM Studios. Much later, a popular Tamil magazine gave a twist to his "hospitality" by accusing the hero of using the two top political leaders for publicity for his film.
However, Kollywood experts say Rajnikanth need not have depended on the testimonials of Karunanidhi or Jayalalithaa to promote his Sivaji. The movie has had an awesome build-up in the media from day-one after the shooting began in December 2005, thanks to strategic marketing by M.S. Guhan, son of Saravanan. "In fact, I was reluctant to produce this film when director Shankar discussed the project because it was too huge even for a production house like AVM, which has made 167 films till then over the last 61 years. But Guhan said he would be able to handle it and he has come out triumphant. Rajni himself told me that I must be proud of my son," said Saravanan. Among the "grand" spectacles that must have overawed even the seasoned AVM producer is a song shot in the now-defunct Binny Cloth Mills, done up to look like an Italian pavilion by Thota Tharani. Besides, the fight sequences — particularly the climax having the superstar bash up the villain amid thousands of flying 1000-rupee notes, not genuine though — must have cost the heavens.
In spite of all those big bills and inevitable production hiccups, if the mega project went through its schedule and hit the screen with such a bang, most of the credit must go to the hero, insisted Saravanan. "He would be on the sets before the others. He would sit and watch even when the shot did not require him. Such was his involvement and he had absolutely no airs about him despite being the superstar," he said. Did he expect Sivaji to create such hype and emerge a commercial hit? Saravanan said he had no doubt of that and the production schedule and the box office reports amply justified his confidence. Insisting that his film was blessed even before the shooting began, the producer recalled an interesting anecdote. When he got the sudden call from director Shankar saying that he was with Rajni and they would like him to come over to discuss the project, he asked his son Guhan to accompany him.
Halfway to the venue of the meeting, he thought it appropriate to pay Shankar and Rajni a token advance for accepting the film. He had two new one-rupee notes and Guhan had two fresh 1000-rupee notes, so they decided to give the director and the superstar an advance of Rs1,001 each. "Both of them did not mind the small amount considering our close association. But when we returned to office, Rajni phoned Guhan and asked how we managed to get those currency notes. The numbers in the two notes given to him added up to his lucky number nine and those given to Shankar made his favourite eight. That was providence and I knew only then that Sivaji would be a hit," recalled Saravanan.
What makes the dark-skinned 54-year-old still click with the audiences, young and old, across language and culture barriers? "Undoubtedly his hard work and commitment, besides the Rajni style of course. The stunt director had made him do what even the 25-year-olds could find tough but Rajni did well though there was some help from the computer graphics team," explained a production executive.
"More than anything else, Rajni is very religious. He has been blessed and that’s why he is the superstar," said Saravanan, recalling that the hero had chosen for his little quarters during the shooting a room with window overlooking a temple.
Rajnispeak
The superstar’s famous punchlines:
* Sivaji pera ketale chumma adhurudhulla(As soon as you hear my name you will feel the tremors).Kanna panninga dhaan kootama varum, singam single-a dhaan varum(Only pigs come in a gang, lion comes alone).Sivaji: The Boss, 2007
* Khatham, gatham. (The past is past). BABA, 2002
* En vazhi – thani vazhi. (My way is a unique way). Padayappa, 1999
* Andavan solran. Arunachalam seiran.(God commands, Arunachalam executes). Arunachalam, 1997
* Naan eppa varuven, eppadi varuvennu yarukkum theriyadhu, aana varavendiya neratthil correct-aga varuven. (When I will arrive, or how I will arrive, nobody will know, but I will arrive when I ought to). Muthu, 1995
* Khatham, gatham. (The past is past). BABA, 2002
* En vazhi – thani vazhi. (My way is a unique way). Padayappa, 1999
* Andavan solran. Arunachalam seiran.(God commands, Arunachalam executes). Arunachalam, 1997
* Naan eppa varuven, eppadi varuvennu yarukkum theriyadhu, aana varavendiya neratthil correct-aga varuven. (When I will arrive, or how I will arrive, nobody will know, but I will arrive when I ought to). Muthu, 1995
Source: Deccan Chronicle
Swami Vivekananda: India must unite and conquer the entire world once again
India must unite and conquer the entire world once again - Swami Vivekananda
"Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
"There is always an interesting story inside people. It just needs a tiny bit of prodding away." - Jonathan Dimbleby
Swami Vivekananda
Take one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success – Swami Vivekananda
* We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
* One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
* Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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The man, who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
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-Buddha
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There’s only one way to SUCCEED in anything... and that is to give everything.” ~Vince Lombardi
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore
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We are but the instrument of heaven. Our work is not design but destiny." ~ Owen Meredith
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of the circumstances. ~Aristotle
"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. " - Thorsten Veblen
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle!" ~ Plato
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece - John Ruskin
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Sleep is the best meditation." ~His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
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God's promises are like the STARS; the darker the night... the brighter they shine” ~David Nicholas
B.Franklin Bridge Sunset
"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
- Warren Buffett
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I think your whole life shows in your FACE... and you should be proud of that" ~Lauren Bacall
You can always tell when a man's WELL INFORMED... his views are pretty much like your own" ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war - Winston Chruchill
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I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God... who is sending a LOVE LETTER to the world." ~Mother Teresa
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God gave BURDENS... also shoulders" ~Yiddish Proverb
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. Confucius
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence
If you want to light a lamp, you need four things. First a container, second oil, third a wick and fourth a match box. If anyone of these is lacking, you cannot light the lamp. This lamp can, however remove only the darkness that lies outside. How is the darkness in the heart to be removed? It can be removed only Jnana Jyothi, the light of wisdom, and by nothing else. How is this spiritual light to be lit? This also needs four elements. Vairagya or detachment is the container. Bhakti or devotion is the oil. Ekaagrata, one-pointed concentration, is the wick. Jnana or knowledge of the Supreme Truth is the matchstick. Without all the four, the light of spiritual wisdom cannot be got. – Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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- Albert Einstein
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Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
- Aristotle
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- W. Somerset Maugham
Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.
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– William Shakespeare.
If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Plato
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Be civil to all; sociable to many, familiar with few; friend to one' enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
E. Phillpots
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One person can make a difference, and ever person must try.
John F. Kennedy
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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
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Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
Stanislaus
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Unknown
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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
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Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and
to play and to look at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
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When you do the best you can, you never know what miracle is wrought in your life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
Maya Angelou
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When we seek out the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
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The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them.
Anonymous
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
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There is sufficiency in the world for man's need, but not for man's greed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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One person can make a difference, and every person must try.
John F. Kennedy
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
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inspiring quotes
Don’t let the low times keep you down. Learn from them and reach for the high times. – David Wiemers
“I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes.
I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep. ” - Greg Evans
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. ”
— Martin Luther King, Jr
“Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.”
— W. Edwards Deming
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ”
— George Bernard Shaw
“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. ”
— Albert Einstein
The most important opinion is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.
- Zig Ziglar
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.“
- Ella Fitzgerald
“Keep company with those who make you better.”
— English Proverb
“Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. “ — Norman Vincent Peale
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry Davi thor
“Frequently, the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your
plan long enough to win. - David Cottrell
“Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision.
It’s the fuel that allows common people obtain uncommon results.” - Andrew Cargegie
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.
They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” - John Maxwell
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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey
S Firestone.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.
Swami Vivekananda
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish come true"
- Paulo Coehlo
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
La Rochefoucauld
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
Publilius Syrus
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
St. Augustine
* Religion is the intellectual resolution of the unknown.
Buckminster Fuller
* The deepest craving in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
* He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann W. Von Goethe
* We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Oscar Wilde
* Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Francois Voltaire
* Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Friday, January 11, 2013
When in doubt, do it
lindsay lohan
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Maria Sharapova
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
-Socrates
Spectacular: Caught on camera is the amazing lightning strike near La Rochelle, France
When in doubt, do it.~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sunday, January 6, 2013
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