For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamRead
I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
Interpretation
Each young person desires to stand out and be different from others.
This quote by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam emphasizes the innate need for individuality among the youth. It reflects the universal aspiration of young people to express their uniqueness and find their own identity in a world that often seeks conformity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-acceptance and personal growth.
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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