Once upon a time, there was a guy who was very much in love with this girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of papercranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small executive in his company, his future doesn’t seemed too bright, they were very happy together. …
Month: October 2020
There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was …
Easy is to get a place is someone’s address book.Difficult is to get a place in someone’s heart. Easy is to judge the mistakes of othersDifficult is to recognize our own mistakes Easy is to talk without thinkingDifficult is to refrain the tongue Easy is to hurt someone who loves us.Difficult is to heal the …
It has been said before but it’s worth repeating here. John Arlott had written about it in 1948 at the end of a successful tour of Englandby Don Bradman’s men. “”Australianism,” wrote Arlott, “means single-mindeddetermination to win – to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the lastlimit within them. It means where the …
1. When NASA began launching astronauts into space, they found out that the astronauts’ pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (ink wouldn’t flow down to the writing surface). It took them one decade and $12 million to solve this problem. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on practically any …
You just don’t win arguments; you can only try to walk away from one with as few scars as possible. A heated argument leaves both parties worse for wear, and it seldom settles anything. But isn’t democracy itself supposed to be based on differences of opinion and the right to speak freely? In school we …
A little boy went into a store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in Eight digits. The store owner observed and listened to the conversation. The boy asked, “Maam, Can …
This story is about a farmer and his mule. The effectiveness of the story lies in the way it focuses upon adversity and how attitude determines the course of seemingly lost cause. There was this farmer in a tiny village. He owned an old mule that used to carry grains and other farming related stuff …
There once lived a great mathematician in a village outside Ujjain . He was often called by the local king to advice on matters related to the economy. His reputation had spread as far as Taxila in the North and Kanchi in the South. So it hurt him very much when the village headman told …
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.Both Presidents …