Krishika Sethi's wire posts
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." — Henry David Thoreau- "Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
- Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid – The Great Pyramid was completed around 2560 BCE, while Cleopatra lived around 30 BCE, much closer to modern times.
- Sharks predate trees – Sharks have been around for over 400 million years, while the first trees appeared around 350 million years ago.
- Octopuses have three hearts – Two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body. When they swim, the heart pumping to the body actually stops!
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius
- "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb
- "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
- "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." — William Butler Yeats
- "The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it." — Anonymous
- "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." — William James
- "Do something today that your future self will thank you for." — Sean Patrick Flanery
- "Every moment is a fresh beginning." — T.S. Eliot
- "The only person who is truly successful is the one who enjoys the process." - Frank Herbert
- "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
- "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." — Dalai Lama
- "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston S. Churchill
- "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe
- "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson