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Monday, May 09, 2011

Quotes by Bruce Lee

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These quotes have been attributed to Bruce Lee: 


“Real living is living for others.”


“Knowing is not enough, you must apply;
willing is not enough, you must do.”


“Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain”


"If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today."


"It's not what you give, it's the way you give it."


“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”


“If you make an ass out of yourself, 
there will always be someone to ride you”


“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water.
On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you”


“Knowledge will give you power;
but character will give you respect.”


“To hell with circumstances;
I create opportunities.”


“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”


"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."


“A goal is not always meant to be reached, 
it often serves simply as something to aim at.”


“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, 
but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”


"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question, 
than a fool can learn from a wise answer."


“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, 
while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”


“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”


“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”


“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”


“As you think, so shall you become.”


“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to exlplore yourself”

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Good Leadership ~ by LKY

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"... you must have good pilots on board 
and passengers who do not panic".
~ Lee Kuan Yew, 2011 on the need to have good leaders.

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News ~ Singapore can't go on auto-pilot, says MM Lee
Posted: 08 May 2011 2114 hrs

SINGAPORE: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has reminded Singaporeans the country cannot go on auto-pilot and must continue to have capable leaders to run the nation.

Speaking at an event to thank residents at Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC), MM Lee said the division will continue to have more upgrading programmes and improvement schemes.

MM Lee said: "Today, the Singapore Port Authority has mechanised; no longer do people carry sacks of rice -- they use forklift trucks, computers, cranes, so as a result salaries have gone up, productivity has gone up. 

"That is the way Singapore has to go and the only way we can increase standards of living, increase our skills and our capabilities.

"2011 has seen a generation that does not remember from when we came. 

"But that is to be expected, but I do and those among you over 50 will remember. 

"Do not believe that the Singapore flight can be auto-pilot. You will run into storms, you will run into all kinds of emergencies and you must have good pilots on board and passengers who do not panic".

MM Lee was asked by reporters later for his thoughts on the swing of votes towards the opposition in this General election.

"I am sure the Prime Minister and his team will sit down carefully and analyse the reasons and adapt our policies. I can't say more, I am not the prime minister," he said.

On Minister George Yeo's defeat in the Aljunied polls, Mr Lee said Singapore has lost a valuable minister.

"Not just Foreign Minister, he was also Minister for Trade and Industry but that's the way the cards have fallen and we have to live with it," MM Lee said. 

-CNA/wk

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Mr Men & Little Miss

Remember 'Mr Men and Little Miss'? 

Personally, I like Mr Tickle and Little Miss Bossy. They remind me of 2 people that are very special to me. I think it is only coincidence that these two were the first to be created in the Mr Men and Little Miss Series of books, respectively.

Well... today is the birthday of Roger Hargreaves, an English author and illustrator of children's books, notably the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers. The books' simple and silly stories, with bright-coloured, boldly drawn illustrations, have been part of popular culture for over 25 years, with sales over 85 million worldwide in 20 languages.

"What does a tickle look like?" ~ This was the question asked by a six year-old boy of his father, one morning in 1971 that inspired Roger Hargreaves to create a little orange man with a big toothy grin, a blue hat and extraordinarily long arms. And so, Mr. Tickle, the first of the Mr. Men, was born in 1971. 

Here's a bit of History. The first six Mr. Men books were published in United Kingdom in 1971, priced at 20 pence each. Mr. Tickle was the first Mr. Men character created by Hargreaves, inspired by his son, Adam, who had asked him what a tickle looked like. Hargreaves responded with a round, orange figure with long, bendy arms. Each book in the original Mr. Men and Little Miss series introduced a different title character and his/her single dominant personality to convey a simple moral lesson. The Mr. Men and Little Miss characters frequently reappeared in other characters books. The books' simple stories, with brightly-coloured, boldly-drawn illustrations, made them very popular with children, delivering sales of over 100 million worldwide across 28 countries. 

Little Miss Bossy is the first book in the Little Miss series.

Roger Hargreaves, who was an advertising copywriter, had been looking for not just a way to entertain his children but also a way to make money. Here's what Adam Hargreaves has to say of his father, Roger Hargreaves and 'Mr Men and Little Miss'. 

"My dad was very ambitious... It wasn't just writing books for us as kids. It just evolved from that. He sat down and wanted to create an idea that would give him a lifestyle and way of living that he wanted. He had seen what had happened with strip cartoons in the sixties, the likes of Snoopy and that kind of thing, that you could take characters and they could become commercially successful."

Here's a collection of ALL the 'Mr Men and Little Miss' Series.


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