Reader Digest Quote

Some question don't have answer, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn

Katharine Graham

The big won't beat the small - the fast wil beat the slow

John Chambers

Don't worry that children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Fulghum

It is better to sleep on things beforehand, than lie awake about them afterwards

Baltasar Gracian

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

He who dines with arrogance sleeps with shame

Spanish proverb

Pull over for the idiots and let them pass, even when you're going pretty fast already

Mike Sochacki

Show up, pay attention, speak from the heart, and don't be attached to the outcome

Lynne Borsc

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.

Laiko Bahrs

When you realise you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm

Dan Heist

You learn something new everyday if you pay attention

Ray Leblond

Don't supply the rocks that are to be thrown at you

Gene Daly

Never leave a place where you are having a good time to go somewhere else where you only think you'll have a better time

Rich Leblond

Million long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon

Susan Ertz

Your bigest competitor is your own view of your future

Watt Wacker & Jim Taylor

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat

Hane Wagner

Making long-term decisions requires short-term difficulties

Larry Demarest

The past happened, but history is only what someone wrote down

A. Whitney Brown

What a child doesn't receive, he can seldom later give

P.D James

Better days are coming. They are called Saturday & Sunday

Muhammad Junaid Owais

Nation like to drive their rulers out, but they object when strangers do it for them

Jeanine Batide

There is a time in the life of every problem when it s big enough to see, yet small enough to solve

Mike Leavitt

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Jenry Flint

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him

Robert Savage

There is nothing to lost by decording your faults

Sophia Bedford-Pierce

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life

Muhammad Ali

A man who wants to do something will find a way, a man who doesn't will find an excuse

Stephen Dolley, JK

The only way you can truly control how you're seen is by being honest all the time

Tom Hank

No-one has a fines command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut

Sam Rayburn

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching

Jim Stovell

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced

Marily Vos Savant

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success

Cullen Hightower

Sun Tzu Quote

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

All warfare is based on deception.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness.

Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

You have to believe in yourself.

Taken from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sun_tzu.html

Experience is a wonderful thing..

Today I woke up thinking I was late..

Thus, after wash up and all that, take my keys..

rev up the engine..Puncak Perdana here I come!! (with loathe)

When I arrived at the location..I feeling something is not right..Do I forgot something?? Seriously..I can feel something awful but to going on..

then when I'm in front of my class..after I look at my timetable..then it strike me hard..

CRAP!!..I'm an hour early.. again.. for the fourth time.. what kind of moron will keep repeating a same mistake like fourth time.. and I think now is the week 8 or 9.. meaning half the time I always come way too early..

look like I need to fix up my PDA..very badly..

also I innocently stroll to class today without realising I have a test waiting for me today..what happening to me? or should I say..What is wrong with me??

Letter to me..

I was watching "How I Meet Your Mother" Season 5..Episode 10 when Marshall read a letter written to him by him when he was 15..then it strike to me..

maybe i should write a letter to me when I'm 25..so I did..

at the end of the letter..i add a little P/S

"Dun forget to write a letter for u when you 30 & 35"

this will be fun when I read the letter when I'm 25..

now the big question..

How do I store the letter to somewhere save & reachable when I'm 25??

Maybe you also should write a letter yourself..

Presentation no-no

A total of 548 people responded to the survey over a six week period in September and October of 2009.

(69.2%) The speaker read the slides to us
(48.2%) Text so small I couldn’t read it
(48.0%) Full sentences instead of bullet points
(33.0%) Slides hard to see because of color choice
(27.9%) Overly complex diagrams or charts

Suggestion

Poor Presentation Skills

The comments were very clear that this is a big issue. One respondent captured it well when they said, “The presenter lets the technology, not the content, become primary.” Audiences get annoyed when the presenter places more importance on the slides than the basics of communication, such as proper structure and delivery skills. Many people echoed the idea that the slides should support the message, not the presenter supporting the slides. This shows up in presentations in a number of ways, from presenters having way too many slides for the time allotted, presenters using canned slides without analyzing the needs of the audience, to not knowing how to use the technology. It is imperative that presenters get training on the basics of communicating a clear message and presentation skills in order to understand that PowerPoint should just be a tool to support their message, not the message itself.

Presenters not being prepared

The second most commented area was presenters who were not prepared either on the topic or the slides. Many comments talked about presenters who were not knowledgeable about the topic they were speaking about and relied on reading the slides since it was all they knew on this subject. My advice has always been to decline invitations to present where you are not knowledgeable. You make yourself (& your organization) look foolish. It was also clear that too many presenters don’t even run through the slides a single time before getting up in front of the audience. When you fumble through what is on each slide, you say to the audience that they are not important enough for you to have spent even thirty minutes preparing for this presentation. You would be better off e-mailing it to them. Again, it looks like we have to educate many presenters on the basics of preparing to communicate a message.

Non-professional graphics and use of animation

While these areas were covered partially by the main question on the survey, the third most popular area of comments dealt with the graphics and animation that makes the presenter look silly. The presenter may think it is “cute” or “cool”, but the audience certainly has a different opinion. They look at the cartoonish clip art, joke slides, garish colors, unnecessary reflections or shadows and effects such as 3-D and they immediately think less of the presenter and the ideas they are sharing. Remember that your audience is comparing your visuals to the professional ones that others use and in that light you will come up short of the mark. Everything you use in your presentation should demonstrate your professional approach and expert position on this topic. Don’t undermine your stature with amateurish selection of visuals or wacky animation effects.

Packing too much on a slide

The issue of text overload has been clearly articulated, but the comments also showed a dislike for packing a slide with graphics and tables or spreadsheets. When there are too many graphics on a slide, the audience is confused as to how they relate to one another and they miss the point you are trying to make. With large spreadsheets that have been pasted on the slide, the audience has no hope of figuring out what is there or what it means to them. That is why I suggest using the break down and zoom in technique to explain complex visuals.

Poor on non-existent template design

The final issue that was popular in the comments was the impact template design plays on the audience’s ability to listen and understand the message being delivered. As people said in the comments they wrote, when there are many fonts, titles change position, bullet points aren’t lined up, colors don’t seem to have meaning and the design leaves little room for content because of advertising and graphics, people get distracted from the message. In my experience there are two issues here. The first is the presenters who use no template or one of the distracting built-in templates. At least create a simple, clean one that is easy on the eyes. The second issue is with the templates designed by professionals who are good at design but don’t know how to create a proper PowerPoint template. It causes the presenters to manually adjust the position of objects to make it work, and most presenters aren’t designers, so what results is an inconsistent mish-mash on the slides. Every organization who pays a design professional (in-house or from the outside) to create a PowerPoint template must ensure that they know how to create the template so it is easy to use by the presenters.

Taken from http://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/articles/annoying_powerpoint_survey_2009.htm by Dave Paradi (2009)

Facebook Quote

1. if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass a hopping
2. Before you go on a trail of revenge dig 2 graves
3. In order to be irreplaceable, one must be different
4. life is not about avoiding the storms, its about learning to dance in the rain
5. Don't wait for the storm to pass, learn to dance in the rain


6. People always say hate is a strong word then they act like LOVE is nothing
7. Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars
8. Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon
9. Once we reach the star, our hand will burn
10. never let the fear of striking out, stop you playing the game


11. life sucks and then u die
12. life is like riding a bicycle. to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
13. With knowledge from the past, comes the strength to handle the future."
14. "Life is like a piano; What you get out of it, depends on how you play it."
15. Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
16. the best way to see a person is to not look at them