Thursday, March 12, 2009
Excellence...
A German once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?" The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."
The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency...
Posted at: 6:02 AM
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Life can be considered as a book. Birth being the first page where one is uncertain of what lies ahead and Death will be the last page of the book. The pages in between these two pages are very important. Everyone should ensure, these pages are filled with abundant of Love, Humanity, Cheerfulness, Courage, Empathy, Achievement and many more good deeds.
"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty." - George Bernard Shaw
Posted at: 5:56 AM
Sunday, November 16, 2008
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups. Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." Don’t let the cups drive you.. Enjoy the coffee instead.
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -- Taylor Benson
Posted at: 2:24 AM
Saturday, November 15, 2008
In the journey of life you will come across many obstacles. Don't take them as an obstruction, but as a stepping stone towards your success. Reflect what you have learn in today's journey because this will guide you through a successful tomorrow."It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it." -- Geoffrey F. Abert
Posted at: 4:07 AM
Saturday, October 11, 2008
There once was a wise man who wandered the countryside. One day, as he passed near a village, he was approached by a woman who told him of a sick child nearby. She beseeched him to help this child. So the wise man came to the village, and a crowd gathered around him, for such a man was a rare sight. One woman brought the sick child to him, and he said a prayer over her. "Do you really think your prayer will help her when medicine has failed?" yelled a man from the crowd. "Sadly, my friend, you know little of such things,” replied the wise man . The man became very angry with these words and his face grew hot and red. He was about to say something, or perhaps strike him, when the wise man walked over to him and said: "If one word has such power as to make you so angry, why not another have the power to heal?" And thus, the wise man's words and prayers started the healing of two people that day.
Dear, friends always use Positive and Powerful words in your daily communication. Soon you will realise the changes in your life and people around you.
Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind." -- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
Posted at: 5:00 AM
Saturday, October 4, 2008
When exploring an issue that crosses my path, I always start a debate between my conscious and subconscious mind. Consciously I will argue with prejudice and on the other hand my subconscious mind will argue in righteous and logical manner. I address my challenges with open concept.
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)
Posted at: 6:48 AM
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Over the same sea, with the same wind, two ships were sailing on the different direction. It’s not the wind that decides which direction the ship goes; it’s the sails, how they are tied and manoeuvred. Similarly it is not fate that decides where ones life is going; it is all about how one perceive life and evolve from there.
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan
Posted at: 11:10 PM