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Friday, March 7, 2008

Quotes from Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes - a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, writer and
scientist. He is also known as the Father of Modern Philosophy and the Father of Modern Mathematics.



  • "I think therefore I am."
  • "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
  • "You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."
  • "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
  • "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. "

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Extreme Faith by David Gates

Truly, it is inspiring! I want everyone to be blessed that's why I'm sharing this short video.



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Inspiring Quotes from WALT DISNEY

Walter Elias Disney a.k.a WALT DISNEY was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He received sixty four Academy Award nominations out of which he won on twenty six occasions. He holds the record for an individual with the most awards and the most nominations. Disney has also won seven Emmy Awards. Disney and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters, including the one many consider Disney's alter ego, Mickey Mouse. He is also well-known as the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, France, Japan and China.

Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World dream project in Orlando, Florida.

and here are his famous quotes....

  • "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
  • "I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true."
  • "Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right."
  • "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
  • "If you can dream it, you can do it."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Leonardo da Vinci's quotes


Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant girl, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence.

An Italian polymath; a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio.

Leonardo has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" or universal genius, a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

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Also, take time to read his inspiring quotations below:

  • “Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”
  • “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
  • "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
  • "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
  • "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Famous Quotes from HENRY FORD


Henry Ford was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. He did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited under his administration. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
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Henry Ford's famous quotes:

  • "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
  • "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
  • "It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
  • "There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
  • "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Khalil Gibran: Artist, poet and writer!


Khalil Gibran is a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer whose poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages. His full name is Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhael bin Saâd. He was born in Lebanon (at the time the Mount Lebanon Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent most of his life in the United States. He is the third bestselling poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao Tse.


Inspiring quotes from Kahlil:

  • "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
  • "I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
  • "March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
  • "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
  • "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."


"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."