Dec 16, 2016 10:49 PM
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating in the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna. As chief of the country's defence research and development programme, Kalam demonstrated the great potential for dynamism and innovation that existed in seemingly moribund research establishments. This is the story of Kalam's rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul and Nag-missiles that have become household names in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international reckoning. This is also the saga of independent India's struggle for technological self-sufficiency and defensive autonomy-a story as much about politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.
"We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire".
Desire when it stems from the heart and the spirit when it is pure and intense possesses awesome electromagnetic energy.This energy is released into the ether each night as the mind falls into sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, yough man, upon this ageless prmise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise .
" Those things that hurt instruct"- Benjamin Franklin
All reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Only a few unreasonable ones persist in adapting the world to themselves . All progress in the world depends on these unreasonable men and their innovative and often non-conformist actions.
I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of learning process.
When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free nad was never free again.
-The historian Edith Hamilton wrote of greece
The desire to work at optimum capacity leaves hardly any room for anything else .
Flow is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement.
When each task of your project is not just a means to an end but a unique event in itself then you are doing it well.
To live only for a future is superficial. It is like climbing a mountainto reach the peak without experiencing its sides. The sides of the mountain sustain life not the peak. This is where things grow and experience is gained and technologies are mastered.
"The sweetness we taste in a piece of sugar is neither a property of sugar nor a property of ouselves, we are producing the experience of sweetness in the process of interacting with the sugar"-Ronald Fisher
Robert Schuller who built the crystal cathedral- "God can do tremendous things through the person who doesnt care about who gets the credit . The ego involvement must go"
Sun Tzu-" War is not decimating ur enemy physically but breaking his will so as to make him concede defeat in his mind."
God has not promised
Skies always blue
Flower strewn pathways
All our life through;
God has not promised
Sun without rain
Joy without sorrow
Peace without pain.
Pythogoras -"Above all things reverence yourself."
