If
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
'Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
"Robert Frost".
"Robert Frost".
Motivations
Inspiration
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
"Albert Schweitzer".
Determination
Action
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
The future belongs to those who believe in beauty of their dreams.
"Eleanor Roosevelt".
Learning
If I have seen farther than others, it is because
I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
"Isaac Newton".
Creativity
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
"Benjamin Disraeli".
Excellence
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
"Aristotle".
Ambition
LORD, grant that I may always desire more than accomplish.
"Michelangelo".
Confidence
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
"Samuel Johnson".
Ingenuity
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what
to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "George Patton".
Teamwork
Light is the task where many share the toil.
"Homer".
"Albert Schweitzer".
Determination
We will either find a way, or make one.
"Hannibal".
Action
"Charles De Gaulle".
Leadership
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.
"Mother Teresa
Dream
"Eleanor Roosevelt".
Commitment
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
"Confucius".
I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
"Isaac Newton".
Creativity
"Benjamin Disraeli".
Excellence
"Aristotle".
Ambition
LORD, grant that I may always desire more than accomplish.
"Michelangelo".
Confidence
"Samuel Johnson".
Ingenuity
to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Teamwork
"Homer".
A good poem
a good poem takes five years playing soccer
five mores tudying Sanskrit
six carryng stone
nine dating the neighbor
seven receiving clout
four walking alone
three changing matter
an eternity, you and me
coming together
(Paulo Leminski)
An Indian
An Indian fall from a star bright colored
Of a star that will come at a dizzying speed
And arrive in the heart of the southern hemisphere, in America in a bright instant
After the last exterminated indigenous nation
Of a star that will come at a dizzying speed
And arrive in the heart of the southern hemisphere, in America in a bright instant
After the last exterminated indigenous nation
And the spirit of the birds, of the sourcers of cleanly water
More advanced than the most advanced of the most advanced technologies
Will come, dauntless as Muhammad Ali
Will come that I saw, passionately as Peri
Will come that I saw, tranquil and infalible as Bruce Lee
Will came that I saw, the axé of Afoxé Filhos de Ghandi
Will come
An Indian preserved in plenty body physical In all solid, all gas and all liquid
In atoms, words, soul, color, in gesture, in smell, in shadow, in light, in sound magnificent
At a point equidistant between the Atlantic and the Pacific
Of the yes object, resplendent, will descend The Indian
And the things that I know that he will say, I do not know say so in an explicit way
Will come dauntless as Muhammad Ali
Will come that I saw, passionately as Peri
Will come that I saw, calm and infalible as Bruce Lee
Will come that I saw, the axé of Afoxé Filhos de Gandhi
Will come that I saw, passionately as Peri
Will come that I saw, calm and infalible as Bruce Lee
Will come that I saw, the axé of Afoxé Filhos de Gandhi
Will come
And what that in this moment will reveal to peoples
Surprised everyone by not being exotic
But for the fact of can always have been occult when the obvious has been
And what that in this moment will reveal to peoples
Surprised everyone by not being exotic
But for the fact of can always have been occult when the obvious has been
(Caetano Veloso).
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