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The Art of Saying Things Inspirationally

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It really is an art to say things & make people think & act accordingly.

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Science is not a matter of opinion; there is only one truth.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands - Michelangelo

A great artist is always before his time or behind it - George Edward

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery - Francis Bacon

Land really is the best art - Andy Warhol

"Art is not what you see but what others make you see"

-French Artist, Edgar Degas

The best scientists themselves are usually artists - Einstein

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from - Jodie Foster

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people - Eleanor Roosevelt

People have opinions about art, whereas science is a bit more concrete.

“All art should become science and all science art,” declared the German Romantic poet Friedrich Schlegel

Einstein once declared, "Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

When people asked Leonardo da Vinci the secret of his creative and inventing genius, he replied “Saper Vedere,” - to know how to see.

Saper vedere, Sapio audacter …sapere aude
To see is to know – dare to know …dare to be wise-think boldly!

Words have more influence when tied to an identity.

Ideas are not set in stone. When exposed to thoughtful people, they morph and adapt into their most potent form.

"An artist sells what he paints. A painter paints what he sells."- Pablo Picasso

John Cleese - “Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”

Creativity is combining and connecting things:

Successful scientists have often been people with wide interests. Their originality may have derived from their diverse knowledge … Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not previously suspected - Beveridge

Only when they have exhausted all the food , water and air , they will know they cannot eat money!

Oftentimes the right moment to learn the most is when you’ve done something stupid, not necessarily when you’ve triumphed.

An optimist would say the glass is half full, while a pessimist would say it is half empty. I have a third point of view. For me the glass is always full - half with water and half with air .

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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 19, 2012 at 6:00am: Life's message!

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 16, 2012 at 6:49am: " Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is -
but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration,
akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. "
- Edward Hoagland
" Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap
unafraid into its beckoning depths.
It is dark and mysterious in the waters of grace.
Yet in the silent darkness we are given new eyes.
In the heart of the divine we can see more clearly who we are.
We are renewed and cleansed in this river of silence.
There are those among you who fear the Great Silence.
It is a foreign land to you.
Sometimes it is good to leap into the unknown.
Practice leaping. "
- MACRINA WIEDERKEHR,
" Great hearts are free of either want or wish;
They may be proud and richly clothe themselves
In lofty, burdenless, mysterious Silence."
- CARMEN SYLVA, "Out of the Deep"
" When you become aware of silence,
immediately there is that state of inner still alertness.
You are present.
You have stepped out of thousands of years
of collective human conditioning. "
- ECKHART TOLLE,

life is not about merely surviving – life is about living!

The quality of your life depends on something that lies within you.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 30, 2012 at 9:12am: Lord Byron once said:

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

Beveridge offers a solution:

The best way of meeting this dilemma is to read critically, striving to maintain independence of mind and avoid becoming conventionalized. Too much reading is a handicap mainly to people who have the wrong attitude of mind. Freshness of outlook and originality need not suffer greatly if reading is used as a stimulus to thinking and if the scientist is at the same time engaged in active research. In any case, most scientists consider that it is a more serious handicap to investigate a problem in ignorance of what is already known about it.

Francis Bacon, pioneer of the scientific method, phrased it in a better way:

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted … but to weigh and consider.

(Hey, I do it in exactly the same way!-Krishna)

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 17, 2012 at 8:18am: Culturally advanced people may not necessarily be civilised if there is lack of rationality, reasoning and control. Similarly, a so-called culturally backward people may not necessarily be socially backward. From ancient times we have struggled against obstacles. Struggle is the essence of life. With intellectual development there is cultural progress, but restraint and rationality have to be exercised on cultural expressions. Hence the need for constructive ideology that engenders evolution of advanced civilisations.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on May 8, 2012 at 5:13am: Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged.. It’s how I arrange my mind.

Wasting an opportunity is stupid; waiting for an opportunity is lazy; looking for an opportunity is smart; creating an opportunity is genius.

“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way” - Dr. Viktor Frankl

A man who is sure he can protect himself is more relaxed - Thomas M Easley (like me! - Krishna)

What we fear to lose is already lost to fear - Thomas M Easley

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 30, 2012 at 5:19am: "There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real" - Napoleon Hill.
Remember that people grow and mature differently as their life experiences mould them.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Give a kind word of encouragement to day. Someone needs to hear it!

Just as an inebriated person enjoys his deluded mind, the ignorant enjoy their pathetic condition.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached - Swami Vivekananda

The bird of love flies on two wings – Faith and Dedicated service. The stronger the wings, the higher the bird soar by Dada J P Vaswani

Success depends on the amount of energy we bring to bear on what we do. Will power directs energy. The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection - Buddha

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it”
—Albert Einstein

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 17, 2012 at 6:07am: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Enter love: Exit fear! Two can never dwell together - Dada J P Vaswani

To me the very essence of education is concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts by Swami Vivekananda

True freedom means the power to be really you.

The main message of the Bhagwat Gita is "Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow and never stop questioning the existing system and the established order of the society."

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 10, 2012 at 7:28am: Nirvana. The word is Sanskrit for "to extinguish." In this case, it means to extinguish ignorance, hatred and earthly suffering.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 9, 2012 at 5:29am: Intellectualism : Belief that all knowledge is derived from reason.

Gnosticism : Belief that freedom derives solely from knowledge

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 5, 2012 at 8:18am: There are those to whom talent seems to come effortlessly. But though the talent is real, the effortlessness is an illusion. Nothing just happens out of the blue. We have to work for it. And how can we work at something if we don’t believe it can happen in the first place? It all begins with a deceptively simple thing. A mindset.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work ."........Thomas Edison

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not the truth, and truth is not the answer - Thomas M Easley

The art of the medicine : "We work in the dark - we do what we can -we give what we have .Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task .The rest is the madness of art ." Great Henry James!

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden by Swami Chinmayananda

Comfort - Comes as Guest, Lingers to become Host and stays to ENSLAVE us by Swami Chinmayananda

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success - Swami Sivananda

Theory of life: When flood comes the fish eat ants. But when the water dries, the ants eat fish. Life gives chance to everyone. Just have to wait for your turn!

Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you. You are the best when you are you!