how to be prudent and take the long view

... wish to http://www.HowToBeHappy.org 49 © 2005 by Michael Anthony How to be Happy and Have Fun Changing the World  by Michael Anthony attain If you desire to be the best in the world, you need to ... not, the vastness between stars is similar to the empty space between the subatomic particles that comprise your body http://www.HowToBeHappy.org 42 © 2005 by Michael Anthony How to be Happy and ... keeps getting better and better  If you are truly happy and full of bliss, stick around and listen to what I have to say You may find that you can be even happier and help others to be the same If...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 02:20

... Practise Serendipity Christopher Milne once unveiled a bronze statue of Winnie the Pooh, the toy bear that became both the joy and the bane of his life Milne and his father took the name ‘Pooh’ from ... another technology He found a model or analogy Then it was a question of applying the principle and developing the technology to the new task in hand The less obvious the connection between the ... the face of a statue of the Buddha He felt that he could see a resemblance between the look of Buddha’s face and how he imagined the front of the motorbike would be Having spent the rest of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 03:20

... Practise Serendipity Christopher Milne once unveiled a bronze statue of Winnie the Pooh, the toy bear that became both the joy and the bane of his life Milne and his father took the name ‘Pooh’ from ... another technology He found a model or analogy Then it was a question of applying the principle and developing the technology to the new task in hand The less obvious the connection between the ... the face of a statue of the Buddha He felt that he could see a resemblance between the look of Buddha’s face and how he imagined the front of the motorbike would be Having spent the rest of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... the face of a statue of the Buddha He felt that he could see a resemblance between the look of Buddha’s face and how he imagined the front of the motorbike would be Having spent the rest of the ... distinguished visitor to Henry Ford’s auto plants met him after an exhaustive tour of the factory The visitor was lost in wonder and admiration ‘It seems almost impossible, Mr Ford,’ he told the industrialist, ... aircraft for the first time they called it the big bird’ Birds were familiar to them Their first step towards comprehending something totally strange or unfamiliar to them was to assume it was...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... Practise Serendipity Christopher Milne once unveiled a bronze statue of Winnie the Pooh, the toy bear that became both the joy and the bane of his life Milne and his father took the name ‘Pooh’ from ... another technology He found a model or analogy Then it was a question of applying the principle and developing the technology to the new task in hand The less obvious the connection between the ... remember to widen your span of relevance Look at the technologies available in fields other than your own, possibly in those that may appear to others to be so far removed as to be irrelevant They...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... by the principle of growth: how people and things evolved’, said the portrait painter Graham Sutherland in an interview at the age of 73 He aimed to pin down the atmosphere and essence of the ... only part of the story Ideas and emotions are fused into the paint in the heat of inspiration What the artist knows and feels is married to what he or she sees, and the picture is the child of ... leads them to give searching attention to what interests them Thinking is a way of trying to find out for yourself If you always blindly accepted what others told you there would be nothing to be...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... imagery.’ Reading without reflecting has been compared to eating without digesting ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested’, Francis Bacon put it ... have been kept active through use The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional ... grasp of the nature and significance of what is being said to you Ask questions to elicit the full meaning Understanding comes before evaluation Listen for ideas, however incomplete and ambiguous,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... 3) to take us forward in understanding: There are jellyfish that drift about in the ocean They nothing to seek out their daily food; chance carries them hither and thither, and chance brings them ... mind, and it has grown Nearly always it has something to with what eventually will be the mid-point of a novel or a short story, and sometimes the growth is towards the end and sometimes towards the ... of all the temples of science: The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.” ’ Getting the balance right between imaginative thinking and critical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... energy thinking hard Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows if they would have ... filling the cylinder with steam and then cooling it with a jet of water This cooling action condensed the steam and formed a vacuum behind the piston, which the pressure of the atmosphere then forced ... into a vacuum, and if a connection were made between the cylinder and an exhausting vessel it would rush into it and might then be condensed without cooling the cylinder … I had not walked further...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... criticism Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to be aware – these are the true aims and duties of criticism To find fault is easy; to better may be difficult ... erecting a temporary and artificial barrier between the analysing and synthesizing faculties of your mind on the one hand, and the valuing faculty on the other Premature criticism from others can kill ... thinking Besides managing your own critical faculty you have to turn the critical faculties of others to good account That entails knowing when and how to avoid criticism as well as when and how to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... concerned: it cannot be delegated The playwright must write the script; the composer must compose the score; the inventor must build the model; and the designer must the sketch or plan Actors, musicians, ... reluctance to publish ‘That is the death-point’, he told one interviewer ‘Once the book is handed over, once it’s set, then you are locked out from your own text The joy is in the gathering of the invention, ... would be simpler?’ He replied, ‘Of course it would But if I did that, then there would be no fun in writing it And if the writer is bored, then the reader will be even more bored The story must...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... a fly, and that gave him the general lines for the vault Linear motors 10 Ball -and- socket joints 11 Magnifying glasses 12 The arch Possibly the Eskimos were the first to use the arch in the construction ... salmon that had been naturally frozen in ice and then thawed When they were cooked he noticed how fresh they tasted He borrowed the idea and the mighty frozen food industry was born They could have ... Answers to quiz and exercise on pages 10–12 and 63 A young English designer named Carwardine approached the firm of Herbert Terry at the beginning of the 1930s with the proposal that they should...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... etc.), the pKa difference between heteroatoms is of importance: the smaller this difference, the stronger the hydrogen bond, as the hydrogen atom is equally shared between the donor and the acceptor ... the relevant genome databases are given in Table S1 The linker between the core enzyme and its C-terminal domain was defined as the region between the end of the usual a-amylase sequence and the ... resemble that of the Pro- and Gly-rich repeats in tropoelastin, a key component of vertebrate elastic fibers Furthermore, the elastomeric properties have been related to the capacity to shift from...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 18:20

... customers, the Functions describe in detail how the product works, and the Features describe how the product applies the Functions to produce the Benefits For example, a Benefit of a car might be ... will study the dynamics of the pond and the significant interactions between the frog and the pond Now and then, we will dissect dead frogs to better understand the living ones Second, the term ... would be asinine to drive without feedback and instead to specify at the beginning of the trip exactly how hard to push the accelerator or how far to turn the steering wheel at each moment of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... started to rise, I can show you how to move to higher ground If the river is already rising, I hope at least to show you how to build a raft And just because the river has never flooded before ... reporters These are the men who dig up celebrity skeletons for tabloids such as the National Enquirer, the Globe, and the Star Don't underestimate them These guys are good the best in the business ... vitamins, 32 HOW TO BE INVISIBLE at her home The orders and the subscriptions have automatically put her new name into various databases and she receives Sweepstakes offers and other junk mail in the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 16:57

... into pots and bricks, oil into gasoline and kerosene, copper into phone lines, sand into computer chips and fiber optic cables, light into lasers Prices, scarcity, and creativity conspire to ... comes to energy and the environment, many federal policies are all pain and no gain The full cost of current and proposed regula­ ions t and mandates should be evaluated and compared with the likely ... prices They make us change our behavior in response to economic reality And they it far better than any nannystate regulation This isn’t happening now because for most uses, oil is still the best and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 04:20

... got to the top because they had drug assistance are still claiming that they never took chemicals Usually they are dishonest because they are ashamed of their drug use, and not want to tarnish their ... your hands parallel to each other . Other grips include the regular one where the thumb is securely around the bar and on top of the index finger, as against the “thumbless” one where the thumb ... understanding of how to train effectively is will occur because the second reading will build on the first It will deepen your grasp of each topic, and knit everything together to provide all the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2013, 13:19

... will be lucky enough to use it 2.2 How to Understand the User It is your duty to understand the user, and to help your boss understand the user Because the user is not as intimately involved in the ... it took us weeks to finally understand and resolve the problem 1.11 How to Learn Design Skills To learn how to design software, study the action of a mentor by being physically present when they ... have the full benefit of you opinion You should then evaluate whether to raise the issue on the basis of the benefit to the company or tribe If it is a small mistake in your opinion, it may not be...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 20:15

... will be lucky enough to use it 2.2 How to Understand the User It is your duty to understand the user, and to help your boss understand the user Because the user is not as intimately involved in the ... it took us weeks to finally understand and resolve the problem 1.11 How to Learn Design Skills To learn how to design software, study the action of a mentor by being physically present when they ... have the full benefit of you opinion You should then evaluate whether to raise the issue on the basis of the benefit to the company or tribe If it is a small mistake in your opinion, it may not be...

Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 06:20

... Transfer and Application Scorecard Use this tool to evaluate the readiness of a program to deliver results For each of the items below, check the box that best describes the program according to the ... training to behaviors to results (Figure D1.3), learning and development programs must be planned in the opposite direction, from desired results to the behaviors required to produce them to the sorts ... should always be a means to an end The “end” will vary according to the nature and drivers of the business, its needs, and its environment But the essential goal will always be to improve the performance...

Ngày tải lên: 10/02/2014, 18:32