Albert Einstein Quotes and Mozart
Posted by Vienna R in Communications, Motivation on January 26, 2012
Video says it all.
I’ll post the quotes in writing for those who cannot access this video, have used their limit of broadband, or are using a device to read text on this blog. These are the quotes from the first 2 minutes.
Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
may or may not be continued…
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Posted by Vienna R in Communications on January 26, 2012
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein
Steve Jobs on Loving What You Do
Posted by Vienna R in Communications, Motivation, Opinion on January 17, 2012
It’s the start of 2012 and I love this. So let me share it with you.
Apple’s Steve Jobs speaks about the need to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing because it’s so hard.
Without passion, any rational person would give up. So if you’re not having fun doing it, if you don’t absolutely love it, you’re going to give up. And the ones that didn’t love it, quit. Because they’re sane, right?…Who would put up with this stuff if you don’t love it?
Two Uncommon Hopefuls in America
Saints, make it to the primary elections as American presidential hopefuls.What’s the world coming to? Well, America has adopted the message of change, thanks to President Barack Obama’s positive election campaign.
But will this be a stretch too far for many Americans? Findings of the PEW survey below prove interesting reading.
Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are both devout Mormons according to reports. Both very wealthy men from equally wealthy backgrounds. I haven’t read so much of Romney’s background but I have long found Jon Huntsman’s entrepreneurial father’s story compelling reading.
What I find most interesting, with a son serving a mission, is that Romney and Huntsman also served full-time missions for the Church as young men. Political pundits will pay little, if any, attention to their missionary service. So I’ll go for it. Romney served as a missionary in France and Huntsman served in Taiwan. Not surprisingly, Romney reportedly speaks fluent French and Huntsman speaks fluent Mandarin. They both report a lifelong love for the people they served all those years ago. That tends to happen when you live, eat, laugh, sleep, cry and pray closely as family with people for two years or more.
Huntsman later served as the US Ambassador to China taking with him his ready fluency with Mandarin, thanks to the mission he served as a Mormon missionary. Unfortunately, one of the presidential hopeful and his team, Ron Paul, resorted to misrepresentation of his love for the people he served and his Mandarin fluency. They uploaded it 10 days ago in a nasty political attack posted here on youtube….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZeVqj-t1U0
So before anyone rushes off yet again and condemns Mormons to a life of myths and misunderstandings, I would recommend going direct to the source to find out what Mormons believe. It just so happens that PEW had done just that. It busts some myths.
