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Your lack of attention will draw attention. -China Sinclair The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you sett led for. -Maureen Dowd The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respec t than he exacts. -William Hazlitt There are five types of intelligence: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. Extr eme gifting comes when one of these is wired and functioning in a superordinary way. -China Sinclair Moral precepts, which to a superficial view appear arbitrary, and seem made to s poil our zest for life, have really but one objectto preserve us from the evil of having lived in vain. That is why they are constantly leading us back into the same paths; that is why they all have the same meaning: Do not waste your life, make it bear fruit; learn how to give it, in order that it may not consume itsel f! -Charles Wagner, The Simple Life. The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shockshock is a w orn-out wordbut astonish. The world has no grounds whatever for complacency. -Te rry Southern. I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistake s as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence t o perfection. I have always supported learning on the part of my team members by paying vigilant attention to each of their attempts, be they successful or unsu ccessful. -APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999, p. 58. Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women. -APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999, p. 90. I have used the word flow at many places without really elaborating its meanin g. What is this flow? And what are these joys? I could call them moments of magi c. I see an anology between these moments and the high that you experience when you play badminton or go jogging. Flow is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement. During flow, action follows action according to an inter nal logic that seems to need no conscious intervention on the part of the worker . There is no hurry, there are no distracting demands on one s attention. The pa st and the future disappear. So does the distinction between self and the activi ty. -APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999, p. 91. A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it s all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Inste ad, such a person tackles problems head on and then affirms, As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me. -APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999, p. 135. Are you aware of your inner signals? Do you trust them? Do you have the focus of control over your life in your own hands? Take this from me, the more decisions you can make avoiding external pressures, which will constantly try to manipula te and immobilize you, the better your life will be, the better your society wil l become. The entire nation will benefit from having strong, inner-directed peop le as their leaders. -APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999, p. 175. Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the soc ial or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done. -APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire, 1999, p. 176. Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity. -AP J Abdul Kalam, Attributed. Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. -APJ Abdul Kalam, Attributed. It s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must e ngage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in t heir worship. God is sheer being itselfSpirit. Those who worship him must do it o

ut of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration. -Jesus Christ, John 4:23-24, The Message. God writes his love on stars and flowers, on every piece of creation. -China Si nclair It is printed in starry letters on the sky. It is graven on the rocks, and breat hed by the flowers. -Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture, Psalms. No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. The reward of a thing wel l done is to have done it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The essence of being human is being able to direct your own life. -Steven R. Co vey Employment, which Galen calls "nature s physician," is so essential to human hap piness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. -Burton Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something n o one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enou gh to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -Anonymous The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -Mark Tw ain Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. -A. R. Ammons Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no other agent. -William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discha rge of some mechanical duty. -Schiller Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a stro ng underlying sense of justice. -Abraham Lincoln Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordin ary situations. -Richter Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his ch ance already, and neglected it. -Haliburton He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our ant agonist is our helper. -Burke