علمت [توين] أعلى 9 أطراف ل يعيش [كيك-سّ] حياة
شهر ماي 27, 2008
"هو ما من عجب أنّ حقيقة غريبة من تخيل. تخيل يضطرّ جعلت إحساس."
"تركتنا عشت [س ثت] عندما يأتي نحن أن يموت حتّى المتعهدة سيكون آسفة."
"عندما يبدأ صديقاتك أن يجامل أنت على كيف شباب أنت ينظر, هو يوقن إشارة أنت يكون تحصل قديمة."
أنت يمكن عرفت علامة [توين] ل بعض من كتبه شعبيّة جدّا مثل مغامرات العويسة فنلندية والمغامرات توم [سور]. هو كان كاتبة وأيضا فكهة, هجاء ومحاضرة.
[توين] عرفت ل ه كثير - وغالبا مضحكة - إقتباسات. هنا بضعة من ي شيء مفضّل أطراف من ه.
1. وافقت من بنفسي.
"رجل يستطيع لا يكون مريحة دون ه خاصّة موافقة."
إن أنت لا توافق من بنفسي, من ك تصرف وأعمال بعد ذلك سيمشي أنت على الأرجح حول أكثر من اليوم مع نوع من إحساس متضايق. إن يوافق أنت, [أن ث ون هند], من بنفسي بعد ذلك أنت تميل أن يصبح يسترخي وربح حرية داخليّة أن يتمّ أكثر من ماذا أنت حقّا تريد.
هذا يستطيع, في طريق متّصلة, كنت عائقة كبير في حالة نموّ شخصيّة. أنت يمكن يتلقّى [ألّ ث] حق أدوات أن ينمو [إين سم وي] غير أنّ يشعر أنت مقاومة داخليّة. أنت يستطيع لا يحصل هناك.
ماذا أنت يمكن كنت ارتطمت داخل هناك نجاح عوائق. أنت تضع فوق عوائق في ك خاصّة عقل من ماذا أنت يمكن أو يمكن لا يستحقّ. أو عوائق أنّ يقول أنت ماذا أنت تكون قادرة من. هم أمكن قلت أنت أنّ ليس أنت حقّا أنّ نوع الشخص أنّ استطاع هذا شيء أنّ أنت يكون تحاول.
أو إن أنت تجعل بعض ارتفاع سقف تقدّم في الاتّجاه يريد أنت أن يذهب أنت يمكن بدأت أن يخرب ل بنفسي. أن يحافظبنفسي في مكان أنّ يكون اعتاد ل أنت.
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On his way to dominating the automotive market with the Model T, Henry Ford embodied innovation and progress. By pioneering the assembly line, Ford slashed the amount of time needed to manufacture an automobile. He installed large conveyor belts in his factory, allowing workers to stay in one place rather than roaming around the factory floor. He also shortened the workday of his employees from nine hours to eight hours so that his factories could operate around the clock.
The efficiencies Ford introduced allowed cars to be manufactured at a fraction of their previous costs. In under a decade, automobiles went from being luxuries affordable only to the wealthiest Americans, to being standard possessions of the average American family. Ford profited handily from the popularity of the Model T, and Ford Motor Company grew into an empire.
However, the dominance of Ford Motor Company was short-lived. As competitors changed their operations to copy Ford’s concepts mass production, Henry Ford made a tremendous leadership blunder. With cars rolling off assembly lines like never before, consumers began to demand a variety of colors. However, Ford stubbornly refused, uttering the famous line, “The customer can have any color he wants so long as it’s black.”
In Ford’s mind, producing multiple colors was foolhardy since black paint dried the fastest and could be used most efficiently. Amazingly, Ford did not comprehend the human preference for variety. Customers flocked en masse to other producers who catered to their color preferences, and Ford Motor Company never regained its grip on the market.
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He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”
Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.
“You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says.
Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.
“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”
“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’”
Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”
“Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.
Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says.
The teen couldn’t answer Diaz — or he didn’t want to. When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ’cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”
The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.”
Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen’s knife — “and he gave it to me.”
Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”
“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”
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How many times have you heard someone say, “Hindsight is always 20/20″? If you are like me, you hear it a lot and think it a lot more. Last year Jay wrote an article listing things he wished he’d known earlier. It got me thinking that the most crucial lessons in life and success aren’t taught in books or written on blogs, but they are found by living life itself.
Sure, there may be nuggets of wisdom that we pick up from Dumb Little Man, Zen Habits, or Life Remix, but it is up to us individually to act upon them and learn the lessons. If it takes a failure for us to learn something important, so be it.
Here are 20 things that I personally came to understand and believe in. Your 20 could be totally different. Perhaps you only have 5, it doesn’t matter. The key is that you learn from your life, your failures and your successes. Neglect any one of those and you are taking a rocky road to learning and personal development.
1. You must create and look for opportunities: Opportunities rarely ever come knocking on the door of someone who’s not seeking them. You have to create and seek opportunities for yourself. You have to take the initiative to get the ball rolling and the doors opening.
2. Negativity will only bring more of it: When you focus only on negativity, obviously that’s all you will see. You will not seek out positivity, and even when positivity comes into your life, you’ll look for the negative part of it.
3. Where you are does not determine where you can go: It doesn’t matter if you’re homeless or living in a mansion, poor or rich, or if you have a 4.0 grade point average or “failing”, it won’t make any difference in the future. There are countless rags to riches stories to back this point up. If you have the drive and talents, you can go anywhere. You create your own limitations and horizon.
4. If you can’t help others, you can’t help yourself: Even if it’s just to hold the door for someone or some other simple gesture, it will do wonders for your life. You’ll feel great and you’ll eventually be returned the favor sometime during your life, whether you realize it or not. If you don’t want to help others, then others won’t want to help you, and nor should they.
5. Follow your passion, money will follow: If you have passion and have fun doing your job, then I wouldn’t consider it a job. You can focus on creating even more passion for that subject and money will eventually follow you. If you focus only on the money, it won’t come because you’re focused on the quantity of your work and not the quality.
6. Enjoy yourself: Have fun as much as possible, don’t take everything so seriously. Push your worries aside and bring enjoyment closer.
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