"Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned."

-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#Doers Quotes #Steps Quotes #Action Quotes

“In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.”
“I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.”
“Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always is in need of repentance.”
“For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.”
“My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individualsÂ positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.”

Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge
“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”
“A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.”
“Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.

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