There are more than 7 billion people on the planet. That means there are more people alive right now than there have ever been. Of those 7 billion people, 783 million have never tasted a glass of clean water.
Put Your Glass down when You leave office today
A Professor began his class by holding up a glass with some water in it. He held it up for all to see and asked the students, “How much do you think this glass weighs?”
Our time is limited
Two patients, ‘A’ and ‘B’, were admitted at the same time into the same ward, both having the same discomfort in the nose. While waiting for the test report to come back, ‘A’ said, “If it is cancerous, I’ll set off immediately to travel around the world; first stop will be Lhasa, prefecture-level city in Tibet.”
It always seems impossible?
Yes, whenever we attempt on something for the first time, it may seem impossible that we will ever get good in doing it. Give yourself a break; Thomas Edison didn’t get the light bulb to work in his first attempt and he didn’t even came close to making it work in the hundredth time. And have you read about the story of Colonel Sanders who started KFC from scratch in his retirement years?
The Green Thing – An old lady on environment
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.” The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
He that can have patience can have what he will
Don’t get it wrong that the word patience literally means ‘waiting for things to happen.’ As much as there is waiting involves, there is also work to be done, before and during the waiting.
Steve Jobs ‘Here’s to the Crazy Ones’ 1997
The first Apple’s Think Different commercial in 1997 with Steve Jobs doing the voice-over narration of ‘Here’s to the Crazy Ones’ but which was never aired.