Ella's Notebook-Quotes

A power thinker

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:50:45 +0800

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" Everyone dreams of changing humanity but no one dreams of changing himself." - Tolstoy

人人都夢想改變人類, 卻沒想到改變自己.- 托爾斯泰

What compose a power thinker? Master 60'
- extracted from 'Power Thinking' by John Mangieri & Cathy Block

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The Reasoning Domain 判斷領域
- A fair-mined arbitrator 公平的仲裁者
- An unconstricted thinker 思想不受束缚
- An auspicious completer 成功的執行者
- A judicious analyst 審慎的分析師

- A bold pioneer 大膽的先驅者
- A provocative communicator 具啟發性的溝通者
- A resolute questioner 態度堅決的提問人
- A planning implementer 計畫的執行者
The Insight Domain 洞察領域
- A ready decider 準備周全的決策者
- A distressless performer 從容的表現者
- A spirited producer 精神翼翼的製作人

- An intrepid committer 無所畏懼地擔當任務
- A punctual generator 精確的執行者
- A peaceful winner 心平氣和的贏家
- An electric creator 活力充沛的創造者
The Self-knowledge Domain 自覺領域
- A valid viewer 正確評估
- A receptive realist 接受現實
- A confident keystone 自信的鍥石
- A successful failer 成功的失敗者

- A principled colonel 堅持原則的領導者
- A flexible doer 有彈性的實行者
- An inventive finisher 創意豐沛的完成者
- A reliable concluder 可靠的結束者

Specific points for myself:

* Identify and value your felt senses - those occasions in the past when you just felt something was the right thing to do. Your goal is to expand these experiences in the future by building on what worked well in the past.

* Monitor whether your self-respect is rising or falling - and use that as an indicator as to whether you should say yes or no when a request is made of you.

* Fulfill completely any and all promises you make to others - to engender trust and confidence. Be careful and deliberate about what you actually agree to, but once you have given an undertaking, move heaven and earth to deliver. Make keeping your promises a habit rather than an exception.

- Increase your enthusiasm for your work.
- Fine-tune your personal values.
- Identify some historical figures you admire.
- Have sufficient self-esteem that you treat everyone nicely.

It is about time to reconstruct myself...again. ( ^_^")

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What is your deepest fear ?

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:31:02 +0800

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
       so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were all meant to shine as chirldren do.
It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
   we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
       our presence automatically liberates others.

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Marianne Williamson's poem in the film 'Coach Carter'
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Time to relax...

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:05:36 +0800

NEIGHBORS

The charges were being read against the man in the dock.
“You are charged that on the 25^th February you murdered your wife with an axe.”
From the back of the Court someone yelled, “You bastard!”

The judge brought down his gavel and sternly demanded that there be silence in the Court. The Clerk of Courts continued.
“You are further charged that on the same day you murdered your mother-in-law with an axe.”
“You rotten bastard!” came a shout from the back.

Again the judge brought down his gavel and ordered that the interjector be brought before him.
“What's the meaning of this outburst?” he demanded.

“I'm his next door neighbor, Your Honor. Only a month ago, I asked to borrow his axe and the swine said that he didn’t have one.”

OH SHIT!

The studious-looking young man in horn-rimmed glasses approached the young lady sitting on her own in the single bar. After introducing himself, she said, “Tell me about yourself.”

“I'm a nuclear physicist,” he said, “and I've been working on a top-secret job for the last five years. Would you like me to tell you all about it?”

“Let me ask you a few questions first,” said the young lady. She continued, “When a rabbit poops, why does it come out in hard little round balls?”
“I've got no idea,” said the nuclear physicist.

“Well, here’s another one,” said the young lady. “How can elephants drop square turds out of a round arsehole?”
“I can't answer that,” replied the physicist.

“Well, why do dog turds drop like a coil of rope?” she asked.
“You've got me again!” he said.

“Well,” she said, “it seems to me, you don’t know shit! And you want to talk to me about nuclear physics!”

Also sprach Zarathustra

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:16:33 +0800

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固然生命是極難承受的，但也不必做出一副十分嬌弱的樣子！
我們都是善於拉車的馱馬或母驢。
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我只能信仰一個知道如何跳舞的上帝。
當我ㄧ眼看見我的魔鬼，我發現他顯出一副嚴肅而深沉的樣子－
這是認真的表現，萬物皆因此而黯然失色。
我們不用憤怒而殺戮於談笑之間。
來啊，讓我們殺了這認真的精神吧！

現在我的身體輕盈了，也飛起來了。
我看到我就在自己的上面，一個上帝在我身上舞著。

                                 查拉圖斯特拉如是說, 1885, 尼采
                                         Also sprach Zarathustra
                                          - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The Best

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:54:10 +0800

What do you need to be the best?
Concentration. Discipline. A dream.

                                    - Florence Griffith Joyner
                                            Olympic gold medalist

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human beings

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:30:47 +0800

human beings
  in thick cocoons of complexity and ambivalence
the innocent kids
人啊！笑容和眼淚之間的鐘擺 *
人啊！流動不停的水銀找尋靜止
人啊！現實和幻想之間的自欺
人啊！感情和理性間永不平行的曲線
人啊！從腳旁的南瓜踏過去，大聲咒詛滿徑的荊棘

人啊！複雜和矛盾厚繭中  天真的孩子

                                - 荊棘 *拜倫詩
                                  收錄於隱地「心的掙扎」1984 爾雅出版

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:48:17 +0800

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確實，真正的認識自我並不是一件簡單的事，

我們往往在行動之前，會先詢問場景，

探詢他人的情況，以及試圖確認自我可能扮演的角色。

因此，「看場合說話」和「表裡不一」的褒貶評語，

不斷地困擾著我們在人生舞台的演出。

然而，探究何謂真正自我是沒有意義的，

我們每個人都在人生的舞台上表演，
只要我們活著，這齣戲碼就不會結束，
即便我們自認是以最真誠的態度在與人互動，

也必須明白，這不過是演出的一個部份。

摘自「日常生活中的自我表演」桂冠中譯書面介紹
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:41:06 +0800

Muss es sein? Ja, es muss sein. - Beethoven

Milan Kundera http://contipromotor.cz/destination-czech/famous-czechs/

About the book:

Lightness and Weight
Quote from *SparkNotes

Lightness and weight both get linked to a philosopher, a philosophy of life, and several characters. The ancient Greek Paremenides, mentioned in the opening pages of the novel, is a philosopher of lightness to whom weight is negative. Practically, accepting the lightness of being means accepting a certain lack of ultimate meaning in life, and living for momentary beauty.

Those who accept lightness, for example, are not likely to ally themselves to political parties, either the Communist regime or the dieh ard dissidents. While both Tomas and Sabina are characterized by lightness, Sabina is the more extreme example as she consistently refuses to be tied down. Tomas, on the other hand, ultimately returns to Tereza and Prague.

Kundera associates heaviness with Nietzsche and the philosophy of eternal return. Kundera does not believe eternal return exists, and argues that man only has the opportunity to try one path, and hence has no point of comparison or meaning. Instead, those characters who are heavy cannot accept this unbearable lightness of being, and seek to attach a meaning and weight to what they consider important in life.

Tereza and Franz are both heavy characters. Tereza is heavy emotionally and cannot cope with the lightness around her, and is driven nearly to insanity. Franz, interpreting all the events of his life as heavy, is led to an early and unnecessary death.

Lightness versus weight is the key dichotomy of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a paradox that cannot be resolved. None of the four characters ultimately seem to find a solution. It is noteworthy that of the four, Sabina is the only one living at the end of the book; however, not even she is necessarily happy or fulfilled or sure of her life choices.

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I believe

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:03:37 +0800

I believe there are always some true values in our lives, so we can go through all the hardness and still smile. May all of my friends have peace, warmness and happiness in this cold season.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It never was between you and them anyway. - Mother Teresa

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,
but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth. - Mark Twain

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God goofed?

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:05:06 +0800

Sometimes I could easily get hooked by some philosophic matters. Especially today, when I read the sentences that I have underlined as below, I just couldn’t help but suddenly burst into laugh.
God goofed ? Yes. Maybe.

* A Q&A posted on the website ‘Ask a Philosopher’:

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Rosie asked:
Does 'a God who intervenes miraculously cannot be benevolent? ' logically make sense?

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Jurgen Lawrenz answered:

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Keep learning

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:16:01 +0800

Sometimes I am very bad at dealing with relationships. From yesterday afternoon, I've gone through a roller coaster of emotions, anxiety, panic, anger, despair, hope. And now I am released.

Thanks to a good guy who answered my call earlier today (finally...) and Sylvia who asked me out for dinner tonight. I can enjoy the Jazz music and feel so balanced with myself at this time.

Don't care if a man treat you good or not.
A brave girl, like me, will always survive. - Here you go! Girl.

Just read a good article:

All I need to know I learned from Noah's Ark

1. Don't miss the boat.
2. Remember that we are all in the same boat.
3. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
4. Stay fit. When you're 600 years old someone
     may ask you to do something really big.
5. Don't listen to critics, just get on with
     the job that needs to be done.
6. Build your future on high ground.
7. For safety's sake travel in pairs.
8. Speed isn't always an advantage.
    The snails were on board with the cheetahs
9. When you're stressed, float awhile.
10. Remember the Ark was built by amateurs,
     the Titanic by professionals.
11. No matter the storm, when you are with God
     there's always a rainbow waiting.
* http://users.erols.com/gberry/goodlife.htm

Good to learn. =)

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