Reading

 

“I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy. The best, the only real training you can get is from reading other people’s books.”

(Zadie Smith)

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To be in good moral condition …

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. ~

Jawaharlal Nehru

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There is a hole in my sidewalk

A Poem by Portia Nelson:

Autobiography in Five Chapters

 

1) I walk down the street.
….There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
…. I fall in.
…. I am lost — I am helpless.
…. It isn’t my fault.
…. It takes forever to find a way out.

2) I walk down the same street.
….There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
…. I pretend I don’t see it.
…. I fall in again.
…. I can’t believe I’m in the same place.
…. But it isn’t my fault.
…. It still takes a long time to get out.

3) I walk down the same street.
….There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
…. I see it is there.
…. I still fall in — it’s a habit
…. My eyes are open
…. I know where I am
…. It is MY fault.
…. I get out immediately.

4) I walk down the same street.
….There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
…. I walk around it.

5) I walk down a DIFFERENT street.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

These were the words of the famous physicist Albert Einstein, who went on to say that “Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

If you venture into the subatomic world in an attempt to unveil its inner workings, possession of all the knowledge in the world is not enough. Instead, invite your imagination to serve as a guide, because many rules as we know them no longer apply. Just like the story of Alice In Wonderland, this new world may look familiar but it is not fully comprehensible. Scales shift and matter transforms. Transitory twins appear and extra dimensions hide.

Nature has the ability to throw us the biggest surprises, so expect dramatic twists and unexpected turns; many before you have dreamed up mind–blowing theories and crazy concepts. Some of these have prevailed against the tests of time and armies of knowledgeable critics – thus far.

Someone, sometime, somewhere, may succeed in completing these unfinished mysteries, or even rewrite the chapters entirely. The book is by no means finished.

Courtesy: European organization for Nuclear Research

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Gandhiji said,

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness

-Mahatma Gandhi

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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

Juliet:

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet and fall in love in Shakespeare’s lyrical tale of “star-cross’d” lovers. They are doomed from the start as members of two warring families. Here Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless convention, and that she loves the person who is called “Montague”, not the Montague name and not the Montague family. Romeo, out of his passion for Juliet, rejects his family name and vows, as Juliet asks, to “deny (his) father” and instead be “new baptized” as Juliet’s lover. This one short line encapsulates the central struggle and tragedy of the play.

William Shakespeare

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Thought for the Week

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – 1910)

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Thought for the week

“If you take risks, you may still fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.”

Roberto Crispulo Goizueta (November 18, 1931 – October 18, 1997) was Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980 until his death in October 1997.

Under the direction of Goizueta, investors saw The Coca-Cola Company become a top US corporation. He is attributed to invigorating The Company with a global vision. In the process, he created more wealth for shareholders than any other CEO in history.

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Thought for the week

 

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

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Quotation of the week

 

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

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