“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.” PeopleWantInspirationalYearsFirstsImportantAsksChangeAcceptingChangedBecomingStandardsYears AgoRaisesEightAsk MeTolerateSincerelyMaking ChangesChanged My LifeRaise Your Standards Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial
“A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.” WorldYearsFirstsWellsStatesDonePoliticalCoursesNationsFreedomDecisionViewsOpinionDutyFailureOughtSpeechAchievementYears AgoAccountsIndependentIndependenceNotesCelebrateBordersSovereignSovereigntyPositivelyFirst Anniversary Author:Forbes Burnham
“It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.” YearsFirstsFearWaitingMastersTenYears AgoTwentiesProcrastinationAttemptingFear Of Failure Author:Paulo Coelho
“My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.” ThinkingYearsFirstsFormVisionTechnologyInformationNeededYears AgoGlassesFactorsGoogleQueriesGoogle Glass Author:Sergey Brin
“Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.” YearsFirstsI CanFunnyRememberActorsPerfectActingParticularGoes OnHumorousYears AgoPerformancesActressesTheatreOccasionsExplainingSeriousnessEntrancesUninspiredFamous Actress Author:Noel Coward
“I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.” YearsFirstsTwoChallengesCitiesSawsFirst TimeYears AgoRiversHillsRisingCliffsRise AboveMistLavender Author:Theodore White
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.” WorldShouldYearsFirstsLooksMomentsFeelingsEyeEarthRememberScienceLostWonderRichFieldsStrangeDiscoveryYears AgoLaysRewardsSevenWinterDelightExperimentsSnowDelicateSeven YearsRevealingMagneticDoorstepNew EyesProtonMagnetic Fields Author:Edward Mills Purcell