Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Photo: Wordpress.
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
May 31, 2009
May 30, 2009
Be The Other
Kobe Bryant with his teammates after leading the team to the NBA Finals, 2009. Photo: Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times.
"Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."
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May 29, 2009
Every Project 'Missionary'
Painting of Guggenheim Museum New York. Picture: Darmstadt.De.
"Every building is a missionary".
Take every project seriously with a mission-like purpose.
May 28, 2009
7-Year-Old Autistic Girl Sings The National Anthem Wows Crowd
The girl didn’t speak until she was 3-years-old and by age 7 she has become a talented singer with an incredible voice. She gave a brilliant rendition of the National Anthem during the playoffs between Orlando Magic and Boston Celtics.
Orlando Magic is having the finest season and is just one win away from the NBA Finals. It doesn’t need any more inspiration but Gina Marie Incandela, 7, seems to inspire the Magic team with her beautiful voice.
Gina Marie Incandela as a toddler was diagnosed with autism. She had a speech disorder and was unable to speak until she was 3-years-old. But now she has become an amazing singer.
Incandela sings the National Anthem at various sports arenas and concerts across the country.
Incandela’s parents sent her to a school with special needs and the teachers trained her to speak using music therapy. She heard country singer Leanne Rimes sing “The Star Spangled Banner”, since then Incandela loves to sing the anthem.
Another interesting statistic, whenever she sings for Orlando Magic, the team wins and has a winning record in the post season (4-0).
In the video she sings before the Game 4 between Orlando Magic and Boston Celtics. Orlando won the game 116-114 in overtime.
Gina Marie Incandela as a toddler was diagnosed with autism. She had a speech disorder and was unable to speak until she was 3-years-old. But now she has become an amazing singer.
Incandela sings the National Anthem at various sports arenas and concerts across the country.
Incandela’s parents sent her to a school with special needs and the teachers trained her to speak using music therapy. She heard country singer Leanne Rimes sing “The Star Spangled Banner”, since then Incandela loves to sing the anthem.
Another interesting statistic, whenever she sings for Orlando Magic, the team wins and has a winning record in the post season (4-0).
In the video she sings before the Game 4 between Orlando Magic and Boston Celtics. Orlando won the game 116-114 in overtime.
Incandela told Shannon Owens of the Orlando Sentinel:
"It just makes peoples' heart feel good and they like it when I sing...And it makes the Magic win every single time."
It is an awesome and inspiring performance.
You can visit her website here.
May 26, 2009
Destroy Your Enemy With Friendship
May 25, 2009
Sun Or Shade
Persian: A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun!Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.
May 24, 2009
Memorial Day (Picture)
Laura Youngblood, widow of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Travis L. Youngblood, touches his gravestone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery during the Memorial Day weekend in Arlington, Va., on Sunday, May 24. Youngblood died of wounds received in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in July of 2005 in Iraq.
May 23, 2009
Chances Are Nil For Extravagance
"Human extravagance has no chance to succeed before Nature's grand plan."
May 22, 2009
Praises And Criticisms
"Praises tells you what you already know,Criticisms tells you what you don't know*."* Or what you don't want to know and ignore
May 21, 2009
Permanent Solution
This is a great quote, not sure who wrote this.
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”
Suicide might be the easiest thing to do, but no one is sure what happens afterwards, it may be even more difficult, what then? Another thing we may never get another opportunity in Life. It is not like a video game we can play life over and over again as we wish.
May 20, 2009
Young America
A kid in beach. Photo: Jeremy Barwick.
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
May 19, 2009
Worst Suffering In Life
"The most suffering one can go through in one’s life consists of
losing one’s mother when one is still young,
losing one’s wife in the prime of one’s life and
losing one’s children in one’s old age."
- Ancient Chinese Saying.
May 18, 2009
Paul Potts Surprises German Audience
Paul Potts, the star of Britain's Got Talent surprises Germans in a mall.
May 10, 2009
How To Measure Success In Life
"Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually love you.I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster...The trouble with love is that you can't buy it. You can buy sex. You can buy testimonial dinners. You can buy pamphlets that say how wonderful you are. But the only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love". But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get."
Listen to the sage, in order to be really happy and be successful in life, it is not how much money you accumulate, it is how much love you accumulate for others.
Go Find Talent
"If you are not good at something,Then you are good at something else,Go find it."- Chris Veerabadran in All Are One.
May 9, 2009
Multiplex Dreams
Infosys Multiplex in Mysore, India. Photo: Tarunactivity.
"I dream a lot...I have a multiplex going on in there. It is a full time occupation."
Hands Made For Work
A Damietta furniture. Photo: Jenny Bowker.
"The hand that is not working is not a pure hand"- A saying in Damietta, Egypt.
May 3, 2009
Google's Larry Page Delivers Powerful Commencement Speech
Google’s co-founder Larry Page gave an inspiring commencement speech at the University of Michigan. He urged the graduating students to follow their dreams however impossible it may look like.
Larry Page has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. Thanks to his brilliant success with Google, University of Michigan honored him to be its commencement speaker and gave him an honorary doctor’s degree.
He was very happy to come back to the university where all his family, mother, dad, brother graduated from the same university.
Page thanked the University for giving him the honor to speak.
Larry Page talked about how he came up with the “Google idea” in the middle of the night at the age of 23. He said he had a big dream one night. Instead of forgetting about it the next morning, he woke up and started writing about the concept.
Thanks to his advisor’s encouragement, he decided to keep working on the concept.
Now that dream has become a big reality, Google made $16 billion last year and employs more than 19,000.
Page also talked about his father’s and India’s polio problems, he wants the graduates to find a cure and eradicate polio once for all.
The video has a slight audio glitch for one minute there is no sound between 1:30 and 2:30 minutes into the video. But for a full transcript click this link here.
He was very happy to come back to the university where all his family, mother, dad, brother graduated from the same university.
Page thanked the University for giving him the honor to speak.
Larry Page talked about how he came up with the “Google idea” in the middle of the night at the age of 23. He said he had a big dream one night. Instead of forgetting about it the next morning, he woke up and started writing about the concept.
When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and… I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work. Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks to download the web — he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me.
Thanks to his advisor’s encouragement, he decided to keep working on the concept.
The optimism of youth is often underrated! Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. The idea wasn’t even on the radar. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!
Now that dream has become a big reality, Google made $16 billion last year and employs more than 19,000.
Page also talked about his father’s and India’s polio problems, he wants the graduates to find a cure and eradicate polio once for all.
The video has a slight audio glitch for one minute there is no sound between 1:30 and 2:30 minutes into the video. But for a full transcript click this link here.
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