1. APJ Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam born October 15, 1931, Tamil Nadu, India, usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam^, was the eleventh President of India, serving from 2002 to 2007. During his term as The President, he was popularly known more.. more..

2. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt. (p. 31) #Doubt#Doubt

3. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? #Media#Media

4. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:It has been my personal experience that the true flavour, the real fun, the continuous excitement of work lie in the process of doing it rather than in having it over and done with. (p. 135) #Lies and Lying#Lies and Lying

5. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:One of the important functions of prayer, I believe, is to act as a stimulus to creative ideas. Within the mind are all the resources required for successful living. Ideas are present in the consciousness, which when released and given scope to grow and take shape, can lead to successful events. God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps to tap and develop these powers. (p. 32) #Prayer#Prayer

6. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. #Dreams#Dreams

7. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within myself. The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come. (p. 140) #Motivation#Motivation

8. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness. (p. 167) #Poverty and The Poor#Poverty and The Poor

9. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done. (p. 176) #Risk#Risk

10. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:I have used the word 'flow' at many places without really elaborating its meaning. What is this flow? And what are these joys? I could call them moments of magic. I see an anology between these moments and the high that you experience when you play badminton or go jogging. Flow is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement. During flow, action follows action according to an internal logic that seems to need no conscious intervention on the part of the worker. There is no hurry, there are no distracting demands on one's attention. The past and the future disappear. So does the distinction between self and the activity. (p. 91) #Action#Action

11. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Are you aware of your inner signals? Do you trust them? Do you have the focus of control over your life in your own hands? Take this from me, the more decisions you can make avoiding external pressures, which will constantly try to manipulate and immobilise you, the better your life will be, the better your society will become. The entire nation will benifit from having strong, inner-directed people as their leaders. (p. 175) #Leaders and Leadership#Leaders and Leadership

12. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:To live only for some unknown future is superficial. It is like climbing a mountain to reach the peak without experiencing its sides. The sides of the mountain sustain life, not the peak. This is where things grow, experience gained, and technologies are mastered. The importance of peak lies only in the fact that it defines the sides. So I went on towards the top, but always experiencing the sides. I had a long way to go but I was in no hurry. I went in little steps—just one step after another—but each step towards the top. (p. 98) #Life and Living #Life and Living

13. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. #Capitalism#Capitalism

14. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them. (p. 106) #Atheism#Atheism

15. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins. (p. 140) #Opportunity#Opportunity

16. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, "Those things that hurt instruct!" I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them. (p. 38) #Quotations#Quotations

17. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience. (p. 121) #Science and Scientists#Science and Scientists

18. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called 'workaholics'. I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration. (p. 89) #Women #Women

19. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures. #Family#Family

20. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity. #Adversity#Adversity

21. “ APJ Abdul Kalam:Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women. (p. 90) #Success #Success

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