Steve Jobs, Apple Main theme is “How to follow your heart instead of what other people want you to do”
HOOPONOPONO: Thank you, I’m Sorry, Forgive Me and I Love You – keys to clearing our world
What you can learn from a lousy teacher… by Seth Godin If you have a teacher (of any sort) that you cannot please, that you cannot learn from, that is unwilling to take you where you need to go because he is defending the status quo and demonstrates your failure on whatever report card he
It’s absurd to look at a three year old toddler and say, “this kid can’t read or do math or even string together a coherent paragraph. He’s a dolt and he’s never going to amount to anything.” No, we don’t say that because we know we can teach and motivate and cajole the typical kid
Failure, success and neither The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career. The killer is the category called ‘neither’. If you spend your days avoiding failure by doing not much worth criticizing, you’ll never have a shot
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realise that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. Eileen Caddy Footprints on the Path
Put a High Value On Yourself I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty score. For life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task.
J.K. Rowling – The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. 5 June 2008Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008 ————————————————————————————————
When “bad” things happen to “good” people, it’s often because they want to become even better teachers, guides, and helpers to those precious souls who will one day need them to be their rock. Plus, today’s bad is always tomorrow’s boon, no matter who you are, no matter what has happened, and no matter how
Thomas Arnold said: “The difference between one man and another is not mere ability – it is energy.”