Motivational

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

Life

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

Follow your Dreams

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Goals

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley

The Last 'Lesson'... Goodbye, 2E2

Friendship is akin to standing
On a wet cement;
The longer you stay,
The harder it is to stray.
And when you leave,
You can never leave,
Without leaving your footprints...

As friends part,
When time passes,
There could be a moment;
Just a moment,
When the two pairs of feet,
From places afar, meet

This moment.
May be one of the best moments
Of life, to meet
An old friend.

Years passed,
Lines from life's journey,
Deepened on weary faces.
Yet, the deep lines of crescent,
From the smiles,
Enliven the line of friendship,
Once dearly held.

Time seems to halt.
Who says it waits for no one,
For the good old times,
From days of yore,
Awaken with a sheepish yawn,
Once more.

In the time frozen,
As reality sets in,
Hearts settled,
In a moment,
Just a moment,
You realised how much,
How so very much,

You missed having him/ her around...

Flash Mob at Raffles Place 23.10.09

From the Straits Times

SOME were reading the papers while others were standing idly by.

And when the music came on, 200 dancers took the onlookers at Raffles Place by surprise as they broke into a choreographed dance.

'The toughest part of the flash mob was to train 200 people for the dance. We don't have a space to accommodate everybody so we separate them in groups,' said Ms Carol Cheong, the dance choreographer for the flash mob.

The routine took them around two weeks to put together.

Increasingly, flash mobs are used as publicity stunts without the original spontaneity.