Happy Birthday Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor’s degree.

Albert  Einstein Quotes

• Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

• Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

• Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

• Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

• I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

• I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

• If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

• Imagination is more important than knowledge…

• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

• Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

• The important thing is not to stop questioning.

• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

• The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

• To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

• Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

• Truth is what stands the test of experience.

• Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Basically, I’m a poor decision-maker . Many times, I would like to say “YES” to whatever people say/ask/request and demand. The simple reason is: I don’t know how to say NO.

So mY friends always used to advice me  - If you don’t know how to say NO – then you don’t know how to LIVE. Hmm.. sounds interesting.

Time to change !! I am kind of guy who needs inputs to do anything.This time –  in the form of Inspirational Quotes. While googling for the same, i found these Decision making quotes from famous people and feel worth to share.

Quotes on Decision Making

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. - Dr Phil

My job is a job to make decisions. I’m a decision.. if the job description were, what do you do.. it’s decision maker. - George Bushism

There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it! - Jack Canfield

Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else’s projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle. - Jack Canfield

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. - Peter Drucker

What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. You don’t have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don’t like it you’ll never be successful in it. - Lee Iacocca

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That’s how it works. - Giorgio Armani

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. - Anthony Robbins

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything - Peter Marshall

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days… What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. – Anthony Robbins

People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that. – George Bush

Some Inspiring Quotes on  Failure

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. -  Laurence J. Peter

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.- Roger Von Oech

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. - Thomas Alva Edison

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. – Ralph Ellison

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. – Paulo Coelho

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to er – Mohandas K. Gandhi

Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Success builds character, failure reveals it - Dave Checkett

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.  – Stephen Kaggwa

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.  – Chinese Proverbs

A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman

To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it – Confucius

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.  - Woody Allen

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Last but not least – If You‘ve Never Failed, You‘ve Never Lived

Weekend Quotes

“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.” Ogden Nash

“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” Bill Watterson

“There aren’t enough days in the weekend.” Rod Schmidt

“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.” John Shirley

“why wait for the weekend to have fun?” Loesje

“If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.” Doug Larson

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Your hair may be brushed, but your mind’s untidy. You’ve had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You’re sunk from a riot of relaxation.” Ogden Nash

“Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.” Lyndon B. Johnson

“Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.” Anthony Burgess

“Of all the days that’s in the week
I dearly love but one day
And that’s the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.” Henry Carey

“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.” Joseph Addison

“Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control..” – Diana Jordan

“We’re only a weekend through this and it feels like a month. But we’re doing fine.” -Joe Peel

“We had a different third every weekend. It was hard to get on a roll.” Adam Enright

“I’m looking forward to this weekend and maybe see some surprises. It’s a great opportunity, and I really think that all of them have the ability to make some noise.” Alan Carter

A small tribute to wonderful god creatures.

Quotes on Women

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~ Unknown

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman’s weapon is her tongue. ~Hermione Gingoldtcalf

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one. ~W.C. Fields

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~ Unknown

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right – instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. ~Edgar Wallace

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

I’d rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. ~Fred Allen

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~ Unknown

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. ~Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage

The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Unknown

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~Stephen Stills

It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle

A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. ~Edna Ferber

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~ Unknown