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The summer day

2008/02/29,02:48

Mary Oliver

The freshness of walking on the green grass, facing the cool breeze on the face and the absorption in the observation of Nature - all this come to my memory when I read this poem by Mary Oliver.

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

Tribute to Mary Oliver for this refreshing work. Thanks to diomass.org for the image and allspirit.co.uk for the online version of this poem.

Rudyard Kipling

2008/02/28,13:54

Kipling

In a training session, my trainer mentioned about Rudyard Kipling's management insight. I have known Kipling as a poet only.

With curiosity, I googled today and came across some very interesting thoughts of his. Please find them below. Thanks to him, to brainyquotes.com for the online version of his quotes and to http://www.poems.net.au/images/rudyard-kipling.jpg for the image.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

An interesting quote on Work - John.W.Gardener

2008/02/27,03:07

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Quote on purpose - G.B.Shaw

2008/02/26,11:12

G.B.Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

There is a candle in your heart - Rumi's

2008/02/17,10:56

Remind those who tell you otherwise that
      Love
      comes to you of its own accord,
      and the yearning for it
      cannot be learned in any school.

The full poem titled 'There is a candle in your heart' by Rumi can be read from http://www.poetseers.org

It is simple and beautiful. Thanks to Rumi, the website and Sharam Shiva who translated this poem.

Quotes!

2008/02/16,08:23

As I was browsing through the quotes on topics that I like the most, I started thinking what would have been the experiences of the people who have said these and why would they have?

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"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires."

J. Paul Getty

"Silence is a source of great strength."

Lao Tzu

"Listening looks easy, but it's not simple. Every head is a world."

Cuban Proverb

Impactful Quotes

2008/02/15,08:13

Thanks to the authors.

"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another."

George Washington

"Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success."

Robert J. Ringer

Funny Quotes

2008/02/10,04:33

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed."

- Albert Einstein

“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”

- Douglas Adams

The Technology Race - Laptops

2008/02/09,09:23

A few years ago, I thought only Apple could build amazingly stunning laptop computers. They still do, but along with the rest of the world catching up with them quickly.

Nowadays a glance at the lined up personal computers in any mall reveals elegant and also efficient designs from PC manufacturers all over the world, Taiwan, China, Europe, India - you name it.

Here below are some of the laptops. Thanks to all the websites for the information. The consumer has a lot of choices, depending on her/his usage needs. Looking at all this 'The World is Flat' , the book by Thomas Friedman comes to my mind.

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