Motivations

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
—F. P. Jones

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
—Joseph Wood Krutch

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
—anonymous

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
—Thomas Jefferson

Q: What are the most exciting, promising software engineering ideas or techniques on the horizon?
A: I don't think that the most promising ideas are on the horizon. They are already here and have been for years, but are not being used properly.
—David L. Parnas

Ours is too great and too complex a nation for even such as I to direct and lead every action.
—Attila the Hun

It's easy to have a complicated idea.
It's very very hard to have a simple idea.
—Carver Mead

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
—Samuel Johnson

There is only one move that really counts: the next one.
—Chess master Jose Capablanca

I have often regretted my answers, never my silence.
—adapted from Xenocrates

"You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate." -George Matthew Adams

 

"So long as millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man as traitor" Vivekananda

Visualize your Goals - an article.
The Catalina Island is twenty-one miles away from the coast of California, and many people have taken the challenge to swim across it. On July 4th 1952, Florence Chadwick stepped into the water off Catalina Island to swim across to the California coast. She started well and on course, but later fatigue set in, and the weather became cold. She persisted, but fifteen hours later, numb and cold, she asked to be taken out of the water.
After she recovered, she was told that she had been pulled out only half a mile away from the coast. She commented that she could have made it, if the fog had not affected her vision and she would have just seen the land. She promised that this would be the only time that she would ever quit.She went back to her rigorous training. And two months later she swam that same channel. The same thing happened. The fatigue set in, and the fog obscured her view, but this time she swam with faith and vision of the land in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind the fog was land. She succeeded and became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel. She even broke the men’s record by two hours.

SUCCESS PRINCIPLES:
When you set your goal, keep pressing on even when you are tired, physically and mentally, and even though there are many challenges ahead.

Keep the vision of your goal crystal clear before you and never, never, never… give up!
See the reaching, commit to it, and you will surely see your goal realized.


"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."*********Today is an important day. That problem you solve, that decision you make, that time you enjoy can shape your whole life. The way you and I ap­proach today, and each day, is crucial. Our lives are built by a series of days like today." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An affirmation that can help in living each day fully :
Today I will live through the next 24 hours and not try to tackle all of life's problems at once.
Today I will improve myself, body, mind and spirit.
Today I will refuse to spend time worrying about what might happen if...
Today I will not imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not dif­ferent. I will do my best with what material I have.
Today I will find the grace to let go of resentments of others and self-condemnation over past mistakes.
Today I will not try to change, or improve, anybody but me.
Today I will act toward others as though this will be my last day on earth.
Today I will be unafraid. I will enjoy what is beauti­ful, and I will be­lieve that as I give to the world, the world will give to me.

Whether these are the best of times or the worst of times, these are the only times we've got. Live each day fully and you will look back on a life that made a DIFFERENCE.


* Winning isn't everything. But wanting to win is.
* You would achieve more, if you don't mind who gets the credit.
* When everything else is lost, the future stillremains.
* Don't fight too much. Or the enemy would know your art of war.
* The only job you start at the top is when you dig a grave.
* If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything.
* If you do little things well, you'll do big ones better.
* Only thing that comes to you without effort is old age.
* You won't get a second chance to make the first impression.
* Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.
* Never take a problem to your boss unless you have a solution.
* If you are not failing you're not taking enough risks.
* Don't try to get rid of bad temper by losing it.
* If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
* Those who don't make mistakes usually don't make anything
* There are two kinds of failures. Those who think and never do, and those who do and never think.
* Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
* All progress has resulted from unpopular decisions.
* Change your thoughts and you change your world.
* Understanding proves intelligence, not the speed of the learning.
* There are two kinds of fools in this world. Those who give advise and those who don't take it.
* The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting.
* Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
* Friendship founded on business is always better than business founded on friendship.

SECRET OF SUCCESS
A young man asked Socrates the secret of Success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met.Socrates asked the young man to walk with him towards the river.When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The man struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept him there until he started turning blue.The young man struggled hard and finally managed to get out and the first thing he did was to gasp and take deep breath. Socrates asked 'What you wanted the most when you were there?' The man replied 'Air'.Socrates said 'that's the most secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted air, you will get it. There is no other secret'.