One of the best ways to stretch your mind is to travel to different countries to experience different cultures and ways of life. Most people travel to places that are familiar, and in fact, return to the same places for vacation after vacation. If you live in North America, visit Asia. If you live in Asia, visit North America. Talk to the locals, visit local places and do local things.
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Work is still the best way to achieve personal success and to better play our role within society: it helps in enhancing self-esteem, provides social prestige and generates income which facilitates civil and political participation. Work is, has been, and will remain the key component of the social contract. It forms the basis for creating societies of free women and men, and it is the foundation for democratic governance.
– International Labor Organization
“Great leadership lies in the absence of ordinary.”
“The supreme proof of virtue is to possess boundless power – without abusing it.”
“Ambitious people aim at benchmarks. Leaders define them.”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“Elegance cannot be feigned, it emanates from the very soul.”
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
– Galileo
“When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen carefully and with respect – but do not believe him. Never put your trust in anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate, may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical – always think for yourself. There are, of course, exceptional circumstances: when you are taking an examination, it is smart to answer the questions not by saying what you think is right, but rather what you think the professor thinks is right.”
– Linus Pauling (1901-1994), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962
Most people don’t realize that we are made of the same material as the stars. If you go back in time far enough, the matter that makes up our bodies was part of an ancient star… and if you go far enough into the future – we will all become part of a future star, too!