Inspiring Lives-54: Biography of Jack Ma

JACK MA SUCCESS STORY - FAILURE TO SUCCESS |

ALIBABA FOUNDER BIOGRAPHY | STARTUP STORIES

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Published by SUCCESS STORIES on Jan.10, 1917

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Inspiring Lives-53: Dr A P J Abdul Kalam

OfficialKalam.com

Published on Jul 27, 2015

An Inspirational and motivational Biography of Dr. A P J Abdul kalam

Full text of his inspiring speech can be found at this link - http://www.officialkalam.com

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Gandhiana-75: Interesting Anecdote from Mahatma Gandhi’s Life

Interesting Anecdote from Mahatma Gandhi’s Life from

'An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth'

 “Two other incidents belonging to the same period have always clung to my memory. As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books. The daily lessons had to be done, because I disliked being taken to task by my teacher as much as I disliked deceiving him. Therefore I would do the lessons, but often without my mind in them. Thus when even the lessons could not be done properly, there was of course no question of any extra reading. But somehow my eyes fell on a book purchased by my father. It was Shravana Pitribhakti Nataka (a play about Shravana's devotion to his parents). I read it with intense interest. There came to our place about the same time itinerant showmen. One of the pictures I was shown was of Shravana carrying, by means of slings fitted for his shoulders, his blind parents on a pilgrimage. The book and the picture left an indelible impression on my mind. 'Here is an example for you to copy,' I said to myself. The agonized lament of the parents over Shravana's death is still fresh in my memory. The melting tune moved me deeply, and I played it on a concertina which my father had purchased for me.

There was a similar incident connected with another play. Just about this time, I had secured my father's permission to see a play performed by a certain dramatic company. This play Harishchandra- captured my heart. I could never be tired of seeing it. But how often should I be permitted to go? It haunted me and I must have acted Harishchandra to myself times without number. 'Why should not all be truthful like Harishchandra?' was the question I asked myself day and night. To follow truth and to go through all the ordeals Harishchandra went through was the one ideal it inspired in me. I literally believed in the story of Harishchandra. The thought of it all often made me weep. My commonsense tells me today that Harishchandra could not have been a historical character. Still both Harishchandra and Shravana are living realities for me, and I am sure I should be moved as before if I were to read those plays again today.”

—Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

Gandhiana-74: Love and Hatred

Retaliation is counter-poison, and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of LOVE alone can destroy the poison of hate - Gandhiji

Complete Works of Mahatma, Vol.5, p.241.

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Inspiring Lives-52: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, Biography

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, Biographical Video
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Jan 19, 2017



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Inspiring Lives-51: NIKOLA TESLA

Nikola Tesla's Biography and Life New Full Documentary

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Gandhiana-73: Stainless character and self-purification

Men of stainless character and self-purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them - Gandhiji

Inspiring Lives-50: Galileo and His contribution to Modern Science

Inspiring Lives-50: Galileo and His contribution to Modern Science

Galileo Galilei is The Father of Modern Astronomy. His contribution to observational astronomy was immense.  He was one of the greatest scientists of all time, notable for his use of the scientific method in finding out how the universe works.  He was born in Pisa, Italy, on February 15th 1564, the son of a musician. He was a promising, intelligent student  at the University of Pisa.

Initially he studied medicine.  However, his obsession with pendulums, a need to know how they worked and what forces caused them to swing with such regular precision, led him away from medicine. This study led to his first major discovery, that the period of a pendulum does not depend upon the arc of the swing.  This discovery fuelled further study, including the development of a pendulum clock.

He studied physics and mathematics of the Ancient Greeks, taking in Aristotle and Euclid. But he questioned Aristotle’s approach to falling objects. Aristotle believed that the speed of descent of a falling object increased with weight, a finding that Galileo felt did not match reality and one that he set out to test. He set up a series of experiments determining at what rate balls of different weight rolled down an incline, determining the position of the balls after a set time and noting that the rate was not related to the weight of the ball. In his text, De Motis, (On Motion), he announced his discoveries to the world.

In 1592, Galileo became a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he made further contributions to mathematics, correctly calculating the optimum placement of oars in galleys by treating the oars as levers. He also designed other mechanical devices, a fascination that he pursued throughout his life. Alongside a pump that only required one horse to operate and shift huge volumes of water, Galileo made his telescope, in 1609. With this, he studied the moon and discovered that Jupiter had moons, as well as verifying the phases of Venus and observing a supernova. With all this information, he showed that the universe was not perfect, building upon the findings of Brahe and Kepler.  He also showed that the Copernican system was largely correct, in that the earth was merely a planet that revolved around the sun

Galileo Galilei was one of the most influential scientists of modern times, not just because of his use of the telescope and quantification of gravity, his contribution to the scientific method laid the foundations of modern science, giving direction to scientific research and moving it away from metaphysics.

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Gandhiana-72: On Democracy

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest - Gandhiji

Gandhiana-71:

History is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents – Gandhiji