Archive for April, 2009
Ralph Waldo Emerson …
You will hear everyday the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. “What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?” – men will ask with derision.
If never the less God hath called any of you to explore Truth and [...]
The Afghan War …
US President Barak Obama has recognized a rare truth - winning the war in Afghanistan is highest priority. For one thing there is History.
The Russians with their steam roller tactics did not last a decade; and the Brits, when they ruled India, made three expeditions, in the first of which only one medical man, mounted on [...]
Root of the Economic Imbroglio …
The crux of the problem was articulated so well by Keynes:
‘Nothing corrupts society more than to disconnect effort and reward.’
(However. more to the point, Bill Maher observes,
“If you have a gun, you can rob a bank but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone”.)
John Maynard Keynes (1883 –1946). British economist whose ideas [...]
Physical aspects of the ‘Magnetic’ …
Personal impact is made by how we are seen, heard (voice, words and thought) and our moods. Here are the attributes of the magnetic men and women of the world.
The first quality is … P O I S E.
Waking, sleeping, walking, talking, sitting, standing, doing most anything. An inherent consciousness of being and remaining [...]
Heinrich Schiller … friend of Goethe …
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Dare to err, and Dream. Will it, and briskly set to work. Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing; and he who considers too much will perform little. It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. [...]
Goodbye to Mediocrity, hello Excellence !
Note: This a post that originally appeared on GigaOm by Om Malik.
As 2008 takes its final breaths, I am sitting in my apartment, which is enveloped in a thick fog that’s hiding both the ugly high-rises and the beauty that is the San Francisco Bay. The fog is also muting the sounds of the city [...]
