12/09/2012

Always Trying..and Always Staying At it....

I shared these  thoughts earlier with my students courtesy of Jonathan Luckwood Huie about the simple notion of not giving up and not giving in..about figuring out how to overcome obstacles and difficulties....the essence of living....

Onward to the new Work Week! :-)







The deer in the picture is standing on her hind legs to reach the apples in an apple tree….lessons to be learnt never to give up & never to give in…………


Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
                                                                                  Confucius                                                                                                                      

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

To protect the revolution, overcome the false secular-Islamist divide - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

It has been a very interesting week.

I begin the new week by noting this very perceptive article I just finished in Al Jazeera on the State of Islam and how it is at such a historic juncture...just like all of Professor Dabashi's retrospectives, I have to at least read it three times to recognize how perceptive & important it is:


To protect the revolution, overcome the false secular-Islamist divide - Opinion - Al Jazeera English