Friday, September 6, 2013
quotationpage: BUSINESS .. NOT EXACTLY...
quotationpage: BUSINESS .. NOT EXACTLY...: BUSINESS .. NOT EXACTLY... “Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts w...
BUSINESS .. NOT EXACTLY...
BUSINESS .. NOT EXACTLY...
“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital
to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and
is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
About this
author
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
quotationpage: COMMITMENT
quotationpage: COMMITMENT: COMMITMENT Does anybody really think that they didn't get what th...
COMMITMENT
COMMITMENT
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
Steve Jobs
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
quotationpage: Relationships
quotationpage: Relationships: Relationships Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or mea...
Relationships
Relationships
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara De Angelis: Profile
- Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. is one of the most influential teachers of our time in the field of relationships and personal growth. For the past twenty-five years, she has reached tens of millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. As a best-selling author, popular television personality and sought after motivational speaker, Barbara has been a pioneer in the field of personal transformation as one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's, and as one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television.
Friday, August 30, 2013
quotationpage: CAREER
quotationpage: CAREER: CAREER “Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselve...
CAREER
CAREER
“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and
evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's
the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest
kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
Ayn Rand –born in St.
Petersburg, Russian Federation February
02, 1905
died March 06, 1982
gender
female
website
genre
influences
Aristotle, John Locke, Thomas Aquinas,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Victor Hug...more
About this author
On arrival at Ellis Island, she changed into Ayn (Finnish
for 'Eye') Rand (taken from the brand name of her Remington-Rand typewriter).
She moved swiftly to Hollywood, where she learned English, worked in the RKO
wardrobe department and as an extra, and wrote through the night on screenplays
and novels. She also married a bit-part actor called Frank O'Connor because he
was 'beautiful' - and because her original visitor's visa had run out.
Rand sold her first screenplay in 1932, but nobody would buy her first novel We the Living (1936) a melodrama set in Russia. Her
first real success was The Fountainhead (rejected
by more than ten publishers before publication in 1943).
She started a new philosophy known as Objectivism, opposed to state
interference of all kinds, and her follow-up novel Atlas Shrugged (1957) describes a group who attempt
to escape America's conspiracy of mediocrity. Objectivism has been an influence
on various other movements such as Libertarianism, and Rand's vocal support for
Laissez-faire Capitalism and the free market has earned her a distinct spot
among American philosophers, and philosophers in general... GOODREADS
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
quotationpage: LOVE....
quotationpage: LOVE....: LOVE.... Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Os...
quotationpage: LOVE....
quotationpage: LOVE....: LOVE.... Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Os...
LOVE....
LOVE....
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
quotationpage: J K ROWLING QUOTE
quotationpage: J K ROWLING QUOTE: “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ― J.K. Rowling , ...
J K ROWLING QUOTE
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he
treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire
J. K. Rowling
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Corellas-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn't particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult home life; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.(less)
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Corellas-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn't particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult home life; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.(less)
Monday, July 29, 2013
quotationpage: Cats are happy...
quotationpage: Cats are happy...: “One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. ” ― Gwendolyn Brooks , In...
Cats are happy...
“One reason that cats are happier than people
is that they have no newspapers.”
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born
in Topeka,
Kansas, The United States
June 07,
1917
Died
December 03,
2000
About this
author
Sunday, July 28, 2013
quotationpage: Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...
quotationpage: Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...: Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ... It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more p...
Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...
Life is never perfect...rather it never should be ...
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in
return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
A sad thing in life is when you meet someone
who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.
The best kind
of friend is the kind you can sit on aporch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
quotationpage: HAPPINESS
quotationpage: HAPPINESS: She said it ... and it is right ... HAPPINESS “People are often unreasonable and self-centred. Forgive them a...
HAPPINESS
She said it ... and it is right ...
HAPPINESS
“People are often unreasonable and self-centred.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind
anyway.
If you are honest,
people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your
best anyway.
For you see, in the
end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
born
in Skopje,
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
August 26,
1910
died
September
05, 1997
Mother
Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]), was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the
Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For
over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while
guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and
then in other countries.
By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools.
Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, and schools.
Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
Friday, July 26, 2013
quotationpage: Newspaper..Mark Twain
quotationpage: Newspaper..Mark Twain: MARK TWAIN “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” ...
Newspaper..Mark Twain
MARK TWAIN
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain
About this
author
Mark Twain
Born in Florida, Missouri, The United States
November 30,
1835
Died
April 21,
191
Samuel
Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American
author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great
American Novel", and The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling.
He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
However, he lacked financial acumen. Though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers, however, he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility.
Born during a visit by Halley's Comet, he died on its return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature"
Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling.
He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
However, he lacked financial acumen. Though he made a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he squandered it on various ventures, in particular the Paige Compositor, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. With the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers, however, he eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain worked hard to ensure that all of his creditors were paid in full, even though his bankruptcy had relieved him of the legal responsibility.
Born during a visit by Halley's Comet, he died on its return. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature"
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Quotations on quotations
Like your
body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
Hazrat Ali
he only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at
random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and
meditate.
Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1796
I love
quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully
expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
In places
this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to
resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.~George Orwell,
review of Cricket Country
Edmund Blunden, in Manchester
Evening News
Have you
ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is
quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The
Intellectual Life, 1873
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borge
Monday, July 22, 2013
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