November 2010
2 posts
6 tags
Failures are the secret to success
Last weekend a friend was talking about Ken Robinson’s TED talk where he says children don’t fear failing. The next day we went ice skating where the rink was filled with children skating for the first time. We kept trying to skate, deliberately slowly to avoid falling, and ended up not really learning to skate even after 30 minutes. I felt proud about not falling even once,...
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of it is trouble, attempts what is above...”
– Thomas Kemp (via jazz-sk)
January 2008
1 post
flexibull (adjective) how easily a person can switch from one line of BS to another.
September 2007
4 posts
June 2007
6 posts
May 2007
21 posts
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ”
– Natalie Goldberg
“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of...”
– Jules Renard, got me laughing when I first read it.
The Hindu : Love and brotherhood →
When will people realise the need for religious tolerance? When will it be known to all that an eye for an eye will only make the world blind? We need to understand that the basic underlying principle of all religion is to love everyone and tolerate all religions. ...
“Come to decide that the things that I tried were in my life just to get high on.”
– RHCP in Hey Oh.
“I think I’m going to puke.”
– Abhishek, day before test on organic chemistry.
“It is yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
– Arthur C Clarke
“If the people lead, then leaders will follow…”
– William Ellis
April 2007
1 post
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve...”
– Tim Robbins