Guest guest Posted September 17, 2003 Report Share Posted September 17, 2003 " Siva Kamakshi Aripirala " " Praveen \(E-mail\) " <skamakshi@hex <PraveenKumar.B.Chakrapani aware.com> om>, " Navaneethan Parthasarathy \(E-mail\) " <navaneethanp, " Srini Ravindrakumar 09/17/03 02:27 \(E-mail\) " <srini.p.ravindrakumar, PM " Priya \(E-mail\) " <priyas, " Sujatha Jothi \(E-mail\) " <sujathaj, " Sudharsun \(E-mail\) " <sudharsun_k, " Vinodhini \(E-mail\) " <vinodhini.j cc: <varipirala inspiration One of my personal favorite pieces of inspiration comes from the life of Pete Sampras. In the first three visits to Wimbledon, he lost badly - twice in first round and once in second round (you need to win 7 rounds in a row to win a grand slam tournament like Wimbledon)...and then people wrote him off; he spent months on the court and in the next 8 yrs, he had won the tournament 7 times...greatest feat in 125 years history of wimbledon. A candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officials since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous. He is Amitabh Bachan. -------- A small boy - the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, " I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process. " A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it.By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl - Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals. A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. The boy went on to become Albert Einstein. A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS! regards razool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 This was sent to me by one of our Members, Ms. Satyavati (satyavati_l). Thanks to her. Are You a Bucket-Filler or a Dipper? Author Unknown You have heard of the cup that overflowed. This is a story of a bucket that is like the cup, only larger, it is an invisible bucket. Everyone has one. It determines how we feel about ourselves, about others, and how we get along with people. Have you ever experienced a series of very favorable things which made you want to be good to people for a week? At that time, your bucket was full. A bucket can be filled by a lot of things that happen. When a person speaks to you, recognizing you as a human being, your bucket is filled a little. Even more if he calls you by name, especially if it is the name you like to be called. If he compliments you on your dress or on a job well done, the level in your bucket goes up still higher. There must be a million ways to raise the level in another's bucket. Writing a friendly letter, remembering something that is special to him, knowing the names of his children, expressing sympathy for his loss, giving him a hand when his work is heavy, taking time for conversation, or, perhaps more important, listing to him. When one's bucket is full of this emotional support, one can express warmth and friendliness to people. But, remember, this is a theory about a bucket and a dipper. Other people have dippers and they can get their dippers in your bucket. This, too, can be done in a million ways. Lets say I am at a dinner and inadvertently upset a glass of thick, sticky chocolate milk that spills over the table cloth, on a lady's skirt, down onto the carpet. I am embarrassed. " Bright Eyes " across the table says, " You upset that glass of chocolate milk. " I made a mistake, I know I did, and then he told me about it! He got his dipper in my bucket! Think of the times a person makes a mistake, feels terrible about it, only to have someone tell him about the known mistake ( " Red pencil " mentality!) Buckets are filled and buckets are emptied ? emptied many times because people don't really think about what are doing. When a person's bucket is emptied, he is very different than when it is full. You say to a person whose bucket is empty, " That is a pretty tie you have, " and he may reply in a very irritated, defensive manner. Although there is a limit to such an analogy, there are people who seem to have holes in their buckets. When a person has a hole in his bucket, he irritates lots of people by trying to get his dipper in their buckets. This is when he really needs somebody to pour it in his bucket because he keeps losing. The story of our lives is the interplay of the bucket and the dipper. Everyone has both. The unyielding secret of the bucket and the dipper is that when you fill another's bucket it does not take anything out of your own bucket. The level in our own bucket gets higher when we fill another's, and, on the other hand, when we dip into another's bucket we do not fill our own ... we lose a little. For a variety of reasons, people hesitate filling the bucket of another and consequently do not experience the fun, joy, happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction connected with making another person happy. Some reasons for this hesitancy are that people think it sounds " fakey, " or the other person will be suspicious of the motive, or it is " brown-nosing. " Therefore, let us put aside our dipper and resolve to touch someone's life in order to fill their bucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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