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Temukan Cinta Anda.

Hidup hanya sekali. Tak ada yang Iebih indah selain
melakukan dengan rasa cinta yang tulus.

Bila anda tak mencintai pekerjaan anda, maka cintailah orang-orang yang
bekerja di sana. Rasakan kegembiraan dari pertemanan itu. Dan,
pekerjaan pun jadi menggembirakan. Bila anda tak bisa mencintai rekan-rekan kerja anda. maka cintailah suasana dan gedung kantor anda. ini
mendorong anda untuk bergairah berangkat kerja dan melakukan
tugas-tugas dengan lebih baik lagi Bila toh anda juga tidak bisa
melakukannya, cintai setiap pengalaman pulang pergi dan dan ke tempat
kerja anda. Perjalanan yang menyenangkan menjadikan tujuan tampak
menyenangkan juga.Namun, bila anda tak menemukan kesenangan di
sana, maka cintai apa pun yang bisa anda cintai dari kerja anda: tanaman
penghias meja, cicak di atas dinding, atau gumpalan awan dari balik
jendela.
Apa saja. Bila anda tak menemukan yang bisa anda cintai dari pekerjaan
anda, maka mengapa anda ada di situ? Tak ada alasan bagi anda untuk
tetap bertahan. Cepat pergi dan carilah apa yang anda cintai, lalu
bekerjalah di sana.

Algoritma dan Pemograman

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PENGANTAR ALGORITMA PEMROGRAMAN

Definisi Program/Pemrograman
-  Adalah kumpulan instruksi-instruksi tersendiri yang biasanya disebut source code yang
dibuat oleh programmer (pembuat program)

Paradigma Pemrograman
1. Pemrograman Prosedural
¾ Berdasarkan urutan-urutan, sekuensial
¾  Program adalah suatu rangkaian prosedur untuk memanipulasi data.  Prosedur
merupakan kumpulan instruksi yang dikerjakan secara berurutan.
¾  Harus mengingat prosedur mana yang  sudah dipanggil dan apa yang sudah
diubah.
2. Pemrograman Fungsional
¾  Berdasarkan teori fungsi matematika
¾  Fungsi merupakan dasar utama program.
3. Pemrograman Terstruktur
¾  Secara berurutan dan terstrukrtur.
¾  Program dapat dibagai-bagi menjadi prosedur dan fungsi.
¾  Contoh: PASCAL dan C
4. Pemrograman Modular
¾  Pemrograman ini membentuk banyak modul.
¾  Modul merupakan kumpulan dari prosedur dan fungsi yang berdiri sendiri
¾  Sebuah program dapat merupakan kumpulan modul-modul.
¾  Contoh: MODULA-2 atau ADA
5.  Pemrograman Berorientasi Obyek
¾ Pemrograman berdasarkan prinsip  obyek, dimana obyek memiliki
data/variabel/property dan method/event/prosedur yang dapat dimanipulasi
¾  Contoh: C++, Object Pascal, dan Java.
6.  Pemrograman Berorientasi Fungsi
¾  Pemrograman ini berfokus pada suatu fungsi tertentu saja.  Sangat tergantung
pada tujuan pembuatan bahasa pemrograman ini.
¾  Contoh: SQL (Structured Query Language), HTML, XML dan lain-lain.
7. Pemrograman Deklaratif
¾  Pemrograman ini mendeskripsikan suatu masalah dengan pernyataan daripada
memecahkan masalah dengan implementasi algoritma.
¾ Contoh: PROLOG

Struktur Sistem Komputer



Siklus Hidup Perangkat Lunak (Software)


Dilihat dari Struktur Sistem Komputer dan Siklus diatas, Algoritma Pemrograman dan Struktur
Data menempati posisi dibagian software dan di bagian implementasi karena bagian
implementasi merupakan bagian  dimana pemrogram melakukan  proses coding (pembuatan
program).
Komputer
Sistem Operasi
Bhs. Pemrograman
Progam Aplikasi
Pemakai
Hardware
Software
Brainware
Requirement  Desain  Implementasi  Testing
Algoritma
Asal kata Algoritma berasal dari nama Abu Ja’far Mohammed Ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi,
ilmuan Persia yang menulis kitab al jabr w’al-muqabala (rules of restoration and reduction)
sekitar tahun 825 M

Definisi Algoritma
-  Algoritma adalah urutan langkah logis tertentu untuk memecahkan suatu masalah. 
Yang ditekankan adalah urutan  langkah logis, yang berarti  algoritma harus mengikuti
suatu urutan tertentu, tidak boleh melompat-lompat. (Dari Microsoft Press Computer
and Internet Dictionaary 1997, 1998)
-  Alur pemikiran dalam menyelesaikan suatu pekerjaan yang dituangkan secara tertulis. 
Yang ditekankan pertama adalah alur pikiran, sehingga  algoritma seseorang dapat
juga berbeda dari algoritma orang lain.  Sedangkan penekanan kedua adalah tertulis,
yang artinya dapat berupa kalimat, gambar, atau tabel tertentu. (Dari Algoritma dan
Struktur Data dengan C, C++, dan Java oleh Moh Sjukani hal 1)

Contoh Algoritma dalam kehidupan nyata:
-  Jika seorang ingin memasak atau membuat kue, baik itu melihat resep ataupun tidak
pasti akan melakukan suatu langkah-langkah tertentu sehingga masakannya atau
kuenya jadi.
-  Jika seseorang ingin mengirim surat kepada kenalannya di tempat lain, langkah yang
harus dilakukan adalah:
¾ Menulis surat
¾  Surat dimasukkan ke dalam amplop tertutup
¾  Amplop ditempeli perangko secukupnya.
¾  Pergi ke Kantor Pos terdekat untuk mengirimkannya.

Dalam bidang komputer, algoritma sangat diperlukan dalam menyelesaikan berbagai
masalah pemrograman, terutama dalam komputasi numeris. Tanpa algoritma yang dirancang
baik maka proses pemrograman akan menjadi salah, rusak, atau lambat dan tidak efisien.

Pelaksana algoritma adalah Komputer.

Manusia dan komputer berkomunikasi dengan cara: manusia memberikan perintah-perintah
kepada komputer berupa instruksi-instruksi yang disebut program.

Alat yang digunakan untuk membuat program tersebut  adalah bahasa pemrograman. 
Bahasa pemrograman sangat bermacam-macam: C, C++, Pascal, Java, C#, Basic, Perl,
PHP, ASP, JSP, J#, J++ dan masih banyak bahasa lainnya.  Dari berbagai bahasa
pemrograman cara memberikan instruksinya berbeda-beda namun bertujuan menghasilkan
output yang sama.

Kriteria Algoritma Menurut Donald E. Knuth
1.  Input: algoritma dapat memiliki nol atau lebih inputan dari luar.
2.  Output: algoritma harus memiliki minimal satu buah output keluaran.
3.  Definiteness (pasti): algoritma memiliki instruksi-instruksi yang jelas dan tidak ambigu.
4.  Finiteness (ada batas): algoritma harus memiliki titik berhenti (stopping role).
5.  Effectiveness (tepat dan efisien): algoritma sebisa mungkin harus dapat dilaksanakan
dan efektif.  Contoh instruksi yang tidak efektif adalah: A = A + 0 atau A = A * 1

Namun ada beberapa program yang memang dirancang untuk unterminatable: contoh Sistem
Operasi

Jenis Proses Algoritma
1.  Sequence Process: instruksi dikerjakan secara sekuensial, berurutan.
2.  Selection Process: instruksi dikerjakan jika memenuhi kriteria tertentu
3.  Iteration Process: instruksi dikerjakan selama memenuhi suatu kondisi tertentu.
4.  Concurrent Process: beberapa instruksi dikerjakan secara bersama.

Contoh Algoritma
Algoritma menghitung luas persegi panjang:
1. Masukkan panjang (P)
2. Masukkan lebar (L)
3. L ← P * L
4. Tulis L

Dalam Algoritma, tidak dipakai simbol-simbol / sintaks dari suatu bahasa pemrograman
tertentu, melainkan bersifat umum dan  tidak tergantung pada suatu bahasa pemrograman
apapun juga.  Notasi-notasi algoritma dapat  digunakan untuk seluruh bahasa pemrograman
manapun.

Definisi Pseudo-code 
Kode atau tanda yang menyerupai (pseudo) atau merupakan pejelasan cara menyelesaikan
suatu masalah.  Pseudo-code sering digunakan oleh manusia untuk menuliskan algoritma.

Problem: mencari bilangan terbesar dari dua bilangan yang diinputkan

Contoh Pseudo-code:
1.  Masukkan bilangan pertama
2.  Masukkan bilangan kedua
3.  Jika bilangan pertama > bilangan kedua maka kerjakan langkah 4, jika tidak, kerjakan
langkah 5.
4.  Tampilkan bilangan pertama
5.  Tampilkan bilangan kedua

Contoh Algoritma 
1.  Masukkan bilangan pertama (a)
2.  Masukkan bilangan kedua (b)
3.  if a > b then kerjakan langkah 4
4. print a
5. print b

Contoh Lain Algortima dan Pseudo-code:
Pseudo-code  Algoritma
Nilai A ditambah dengan 5  A ← A + 5
Cetak nilai A bila lebih besar dari 10  IF A > 10 THEN PRINT A
Dari dua bilangan A dan B, cari
bilangan yang terbesar
IF A > B THEN PRINT A ELSE PRINT
B
Langkah-langkah dalam pemrograman komputer
1. Mendefinisikan masalah
Ini merupakan langkah pertama yang sering dilupakan orang.  Menurut hukum Murphy
(oleh Henry Ledgard):
“Semakin cepat menulis program, akan semakin lama kita dapat menyelesaikannya”.
Hal tersebut berlaku untuk permasalahan yang kompleks.  Tentukan masalahnya, apa
saja yang harus dipecahkan dengan menggunakan komputer, dan apa inputan serta
outputnya.
2. Menemukan solusi
Setelah masalah didefinisikan, maka langkah berikutnya adalah menentukan solusi. 
Jika masalah terlalu kompleks, maka ada  baiknya masalah tersebut dipecah menjadi
modul-modul kecil agar lebih mudah diselesaikan.
Contohnya masalah invers matriks, maka kita dapat membagi menjadi beberapa
modul:
¾  meminta masukkan berupa matriks bujur sangkar
¾  mencari invers matriks
¾  menampilkan hasil kepada pengguna
Dengan penggunaan modul tersebut program utama akan menjadi lebih singkat dan
mudah dilihat.
3. Memilih algoritma
Pilihlah algoritma yang benar-benar sesuai dan efisien untuk permasalahan tersebut
4. Menulis program
Pilihlah bahasa yang mudah dipelajari, mudah digunakan, dan  lebih baik lagi jika
sudah dikuasai, memiliki tingkat kompatibilitas tinggi dengan perangkat keras dan
platform lainnya.
5. Menguji program
Setelah program jadi, silahkan uji  program tersebut dengan segala macam
kemungkinan yang ada, termasuk error-handlingnya sehingga program tersebut akan
benar-benar handal dan layak digunakan.
6. Menulis dokumentasi
Menulis dokumentasi sangat  penting agar pada suatu saat  jika kita akan melakukan
perubahan atau membaca source code yang sudah kita tulis dapat kita ingat-ingat lagi
dan kita akan mudah membacanya.  Caranya adalah dengan menuliskan komentar-
komentar kecil tentang apa maksud kode tersebut, untuk apa, variabel apa saja yang
digunakan, untuk apa, dan parameter-parameter yang ada pada suatu prosedur dan
fungsi.
7. Merawat program
Program yang sudah jadi perlu dirawat untuk mencegah munculnya bug yang
sebelumnya tidak terdeteksi.  Atau mungkin juga pengguna membutuhkan fasilitas
baru yang dulu tidak ada.

SOAL ALGORITMA
1.  Buatlah algoritma untuk menghitung konversi suhu.dari Celcius menjadi Reamur dan
Farenheit.
Input: suhu dalam Celcius
Proses: R = 4/5 * C dan F = 9/5 * C + 32
Output: suhu dalam Reamur dan Farenheit
2.  Buatlah algoritma untuk mencari sisi miring dari suatu segitiga siku-siku, jika diketahui
panjang sisi yang membentuk sudut siku-siku.
Input: a dan b, yaitu panjang sisi pembentuk sudut siku-siku
Proses:  22
bac += 
Ouput: sisi miring (c)
3.  Buatlah algoritma untuk menentukan suatu bilangan genap atau ganjil
Input: suatu bilangan
Ouput: genap / ganjil
4.  Buatlah algoritma untuk menentukan suatu bilangan adalah bilangan prima atau
bukan.
5.  Buatlah algoritma untuk untuk menghitung akar-akar persamaan kuadrat dengan
rumus D = B2
 – 4 * A * C
Jika D < 0 maka didapat akar imajiner  
Jika D = 0 maka X1 = X2 yang didapat dari D = -B / (2 * A)
Jika D > 0 maka ada dua akar  ADBX *2/1 +−=  dan  ADBX *2/2 −−= 
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Generasi Bahasa Pemrograman, Proses Kompilasi, FlowChart, mengenal C++ dan C#

Self Motivation

Is mistaken someone else motivating you demand. Nobody
responsible for the sinking of the motivation that arise inside
you, but your own. Speech by the leader of the passion,
an exciting training programs or the full vision statement
beautiful sentences, all of it's only attempt at knocking on the door of your self-motivation.
If you do not open it forgive, beats as hard as anything not
useful. Because you are responsible for the career and
your life, then get up, wake yourself.
You are not responsible for the ups and downs of motivation of others.
Because you do not always know what their expectations. The motivation is always food borne illness
with hope. Provide a place for them to live up to expectations
together: between you and them. Later work shoulder to shoulder
to make it happen.    Motivation always emerged from the excitement.
While the excitement found in the joint work.
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Did You Know!.

Mithridates (132-63 BC) was the rulers of Pontus and the enemy
the great Roman Empire. Believing that he would be poisoned by
his enemies, Mithradates ' practicing ' by swallowing poison
small doses that are gradually increased with doses of poison. At the end
 'exercise ' he became invulnerable and could not be poisoned.
Ironically, in a battle against the Romans. Mithridates was defeated
and cornered. Rather than endure the embarrassment. He attempted to commit suicide
by drinking poison.    Of course useless.   The end of his efforts,
Mithridates ordered a bodyguard
to kill with the sword.
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Wise Words Today.
Heart full of gratitude not only a virtue
the largest, but is also the parent
all other virtues.
(Cicero)
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in Indonesian :
Motivasi Diri
Adalah keliru menuntut orang lain memotivasi anda. Tak seorang pun
bertanggung jawab atas timbul tenggelamnya motivasi itu di dalam diri
anda, melainkan anda sendiri. Pidato pemimpin yang menggebu-gebu,
program pelatihan yang menggairahkan atau pernyataan visi yang penuh
kalimat indah, semua itu hanya usaha mengetuk pintu motivasi diri anda.
Bila anda tak berkenan membukanya, gedoran sekeras apa pun takkan
berguna. Karena anda bertanggung jawab atas perjalanan karier dan
hidup anda, maka bangunlah, bangunkan diri anda sendiri.
Anda pun tak bertanggung jawab pada naik turunnya motivasi orang lain.
Karena anda tak selalu tahu apa harapan mereka. Motivasi selalu bertalian
dengan harapan. Sediakan tempat bagi mereka untuk memenuhi harapan
bersama: antara anda dan mereka. Kemudian bekerjalah bahu-membahu
untuk   mewujudkannya.    Motivasi   selalu   muncul   dari   kegembiraan.
Sedangkan kegembiraan ditemukan dalam kerja bersama.
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Tahukah Anda!.

Mithradates (131-63 SM) adalah penguasa negeri Pontus dan musuh
besar Kerajaan Roma. Karena percaya bahwa ia akan diracun oleh
musuh-musuhnya, Mithradates 'berlatih' dengan cara menelan racun
dosis kecil yang dengan secara bertahap ditingkatkan dosisnya. Di akhir
'latihan' ia menjadi kebal dan tak dapat diracuni.
Ironisnya, dalam sebuah pertempuran melawan Roma. Mithradates kalah
dan terpojok. Daripada menanggung malu. ia berusaha untuk bunuh diri
dengan   meminum   racun.    Tentu   saja   sia-sia.   Diakhir   usahanya,
Mithradates memerintahkan seorang pengawal
untuk membunuhnya dengan pedang.
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Kata Bijak Hari Ini.
Hati yang penuh syukur bukan saja merupakan kebajikan
yang terbesar, melainkan merupakan pula induk
segala kebajikan yang lain.
(Cicero)
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robot

Japanese Researchers Create Robot Claims to Think & Act Like a Man

A robot that can thought seems to be a thing that it is not impossible any more. A researcher at Japan Named Osamu Hasegawa claimed to have succeeded in creating robots that can learn from his experience and resolve the problem.

Osamu says, the current development of robot technology is very rapid. However, for a robot that can be thought of as distinct as human beings, remains a constraint. Generally a robot can only do certain tasks that are specified with a programming language.

According to him, this type of robot will not be too many useful in everyday life. To that end he uses the Self Organising Incremental Neural Network or called SOINN, an algorithm that allows the robot to learn from her experiences.

In the lab, the robot is instructed to perform some tasks, such as pouring the tea, holding a bottle, put the cups and others. With the existence of such Labs, learning in robots will be able to perform the same task at a later time.

Currently, his team is developing a method that this robot can learn through the internet network. He hoped there would be a robot who can think and connect directly with internet.

Sedikit demi sedikit lama-lama jadi bukit

Pepatah ini sederhana saja, “sedikit demi sedikit, lama-lama menjadi bukit.” Kita biasa memaknainya, bahwa bila kita mengumupulkan sesen demi sesen, pada saatnya kita akan dapatkan sepundi. Namun sesungguhnya pepatah ini tak sekedar berbicara tentang hidup hemat, atau ketekunan menabung.

Pepatah ini menyiratkan tentang sesuatau yang lebih berharga dari sekedar sekantung keping uang, yaitu: bila kita mampu mengumpulkan kebaikan dalam setiap tindakan-tindakan kecil kita, maka kita akan dapati kebesaran dalam jiwa kita.

 Bagaimanakah tindakan-tindakan kecil kita itu mencerminkan kebesaran jiwa sang pemiliknya? Yaitu, bila disertai dengan secerah kasih sayang didalamnya. Ucapan terima kasih, sesungging senyum, sapaan ramah, atau pelukan bersahabat, adalah tindakan yang mungkin sepele saja. Namun dalam liputan kasih sayang, ia jauh lebih tinggi daripada bukit tabungan anda.

wise words about life

Wise Words of Albert Einstein

“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…“

“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery–even if mixed with fear–that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms–it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves.”

“A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows. We call him good or bad according to how he stands in this matter. It looks at first sight as if our estimate of a man depended entirely on his social qualities.”

wise words about life

Some Things In Life Are Not Meant To Be

Many people spend their time trying to be like others, and don’t know how to just be themselves.
Some people find it very difficult to be happy for others.
Nobody in the world can change the truth,
But the truth can change the lives of many.
Sincere or beautiful words are not always spoken by sincere or beautiful people.
Letting go is not always about giving up.
Sometimes it’s just accepting that some things in life are not meant to be.
Don’t regret your past, just regret the time you wasted with the wrong people.
Some people run away to be alone, others just to see who cares.

It’s Who You Think You’re Not

Learn from your mistakes, have no regrets, move on, and look forward to the future.
The past may be painful, but we can either run from it, or we can learn from it.
It is better to have one moment of wonder than a lifetime of nothing special.
We should live our life so that we earn and keep the respect of those people we respect.
Be like the stars, shine your own light and don’t be afraid of the darkness.
It’s not who you are that stops you risking something, it’s who you think you’re not.
Our uniqueness is God-given, never compare yourself with others.

Every Ending Is A New Beginni

Just because someone doesn’t talk about their problems, doesn’t mean they don’t have any.
Forget what’s gone, appreciate what you have now, and look forward to what may come.
It really is a big world out there, stuffed with possibility and other people, and our life, our routine, is a mere speck.
The best feelings in life are those that have no words to describe them.
The only things we should regret in life are the risks we did not take.
Every story has an ending, but in life every ending is a new beginning.
Those who we think are strong may cry themselves to sleep, and those who we think are weak may slay dragons.

We Sometimes Expect More From Other

Those who are able to see beauty in ordinary things have one of life’s rare gifts.
Life passes some people by, and others it runs over.
Don’t allow so-called friends to talk you into making decisions that you know won’t make you truly happy.
Life is too short to waste time on those who do not appreciate what you do for them.
We never know how strong we are until that moment when being strong is the only choice we have.
It is sometimes good to be alone, but it is never good to be lonely.
We sometimes expect more from others, because we know we would do much for them.
Every day we should try and do something that will give us a better tomorrow.
It’s almost impossible to forget those who made us smile.

You Are Not Weak If You Forgive People

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Fear is important, because sometimes it is the only thing that stops us doing something stupid.
Do all the good you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, for as long as you can.
You are not weak if you forgive people, you are strong because you know people make mistakes.
It is more important that you understand yourself than it is for others to understand you.
The mistake that many people make is fearing they will make a mistake.
Knowing you have made someone feel better is one of the good feelings in life.
Our destiny is sometimes decided by the person we decide to be.

Sometimes Silence Has The Loudest Voice

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Listen, or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

You Are Doomed If You Don’t Try

I think if you’re conscious of what you have, then you’re happy.
If you’re conscious of what you don’t have, then you become unhappy.
The job of materialism and advertising is to make people conscious of what they don’t have and that breeds unhappiness.
(David McKee)
Vanity is the result of a delusion that someone is paying attention.
People judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of gold, but so has a hard-boiled egg.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Our Last Breath Is The Beginning Of Eternity

A man’s wealth consists not in the visible blessings of fortune, but in the unseen riches of the mind.
Our first breath is the beginning of death, and our last breath is the beginning of eternity.
Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
Sometimes you earn more doing the jobs that pay nothing.

Only Those Who Care Will Listen

If you cannot do great things, then do small things in a great way.
Live for today and let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.
Establishing lasting peace in the world should be the main subject of education.
Time is always available for those who wish to use it.
The function of the human body is to carry our soul to the end of this life.
Do not overestimate the competition, and do not underestimate yourself.
Anyone can hear what you say, but only those who care will listen.

Sometimes We Just Need Someone To Listen

Never regret what you said, only regret what you didn’t say.
Silence is sometimes trying to tell us something.
At the end of the day, all we need is to feel we are needed.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
It’s not what you have in your life that counts, but who you have in your life.
Surround yourself with people that make you happy.
Sometimes we just need someone to listen.
However good or bad your life may be, be thankful you still have one

motivation

The important thing is this:  To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.  ~Charles DuBois Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.  ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com [T]ime you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.  ~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married, 1912 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!) It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.  ~Albert Einstein Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.  ~Charles Dickens If only I may grow:  firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.  ~Dag Hammarskjold We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com When you start treating people like people, they become people.  ~Paul Vitale Be kind to your shadow.  ~Rebecca Lawless I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older.  But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.  ~From the television show Scrubs The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.  ~Shiloh Morrison If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.  ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life Never explain.  Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.  ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911 Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own.  You may both be wrong.  ~Dandemis Whatever you are be a good one.  ~Abraham Lincoln It's better to fight for something than against something.  ~Author Unknown The day will happen whether or not you get up.  ~John Ciardi Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.  ~Morihei Ueshiba Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.  Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.  ~George R. Kirkpatrick One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.  ~Oscar Wilde Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds.  ~Mikhael Dominico Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.  ~Chinese Proverb When you live in reaction, you give your power away.  Then you get to experience what you gave your power to.  ~N. Smith Do not fall before you are pushed.  ~English Proverb When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak.  Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.  ~Author Unknown Promise only what you can deliver.  Then deliver more than you promise.  ~Author Unknown All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.  ~Epictetus Always watch where you are going.  Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.  ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne Don't compromise yourself.  You're all you've got.  ~Janis Joplin Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.  ~Edward Steichen Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.  ~Albert Einstein The biggest problem in the world Could have been solved when it was small. ~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.  ~Albert Schweitzer Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.  ~Robert Frost What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.  ~Ramakrishna Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become.  But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.  ~Tom Stoppard I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy.  ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.  ~Robert Charles Whitehead Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched.  ~Author Unknown The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.  ~S.A. Sachs Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.  ~Oscar Wilde It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.  ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979 Just be ordinary and nothing special.  Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down.  The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.  ~Bruce Lee Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.  ~Doug Horton To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.  ~Hippocrates Work out your own salvation.  Do not depend on others.  ~Buddha Make somebody happy today.  Mind your own business.  ~Ann Landers Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.  ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595 Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?  ~Abraham Lincoln Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say.  "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."  ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954 There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.  ~James Thurber The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"  ~Oprah Winfrey Don't get your knickers in a knot.  Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.  ~Kathryn Carpenter Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.  ~G.C. Lichtenberg Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.  ~Lao Tzu We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.  ~Frederick W. Faber Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.  ~Stanislaw Lec Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.  ~Benjamin Franklin Don't despise empiric truth.  Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.  ~Martin H. Fischer Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart.  Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 The best way to predict your future is to create it.  ~Peter Drucker You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.  ~Irish Proverb Beware of a man of one book.  ~English Proverb Never make your home in a place.  Make a home for yourself inside your own head.  You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.  That way it will go with you wherever you journey.  ~Tad Williams It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.  ~Baltasar Gracian Go with your heart, buddy.  Our brains only screw things up.  ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring" It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.  ~Horace Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks.  And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.  ~Henry David Thoreau Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.  ~Swedish Proverb The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.  ~Thomas Edison Aspire to a lower level of harm.  ~Anonymous I try not to kid myself.  You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.  ~Bill Veeck You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.  ~Mick Jagger When you lose, don't lose the lesson.  ~Author Unknown There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.  ~John C. Collins Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.  ~Frank Tyger Dig the well before you are thirsty.  ~Chinese Proverb Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.  ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.  We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.  ~Benjamin Franklin Be nice to those you meet on the way up.  They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down.  ~Walter Winchell, 1932 When you throw dirt, you lose ground.  ~Texan Proverb The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.  ~Albert Schweitzer Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.  ~Brigham Young Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes.  ~From the television show Scrubs Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go.  ~Author Unknown It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.  ~Author Unknown The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow.  Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.  ~Author Unknown For visions come not to polluted eyes.  ~Mary Howitt Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Remedy it, or welcome it:  a wise man's only two choices.  ~Terri Guillemets To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.  ~Chinese Proverb The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool.  ~Richard Feynman Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.  ~Joaquin de Setanti God is good, but never dance in a small boat.  ~Irish Saying It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.  ~Joseph Joubert Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.  ~Mary Kay Ash Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.  ~Malcolm S. Forbes I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.  Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.  ~Glenda Jackson

motivation

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.  ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420


You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-)


What saves a man is to take a step.  Then another step.  It is always the same step, but you have to take it.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Don't wait for the Last Judgment.  It happens every day.  ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956


Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.  ~Henry David Thoreau


Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!  ~Allison Gappa Bottke


Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson


If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.  ~Jim Rohn


In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.  ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com


See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.  ~Pope John XXIII


Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.  ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros


Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?  ~Coleman Cox


Laziness will cause you pain.  ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense


If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.  ~Toni Morrison


Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics.  Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.  ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949


Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  ~Author Unknown


Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.  ~Brecht


[O]wning your burdens is half the battle.  ~From the television show Scrubs


Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.  ~Victor Hugo


We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.  ~William James


You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.  ~Leo Aikman


Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.  Seek discipline and find your liberty.  ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles


The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.  ~Plato


Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.  ~Jonathan Kozel


Tough and funny and a little bit kind:  that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.  ~Frances Willard


Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words "So far."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.  ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr


A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners.  ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com


People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them.  They cannot go right, unless you let them.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Excess on occasion is exhilirating.  It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.  ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938


The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King


I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.  ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"


Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.  ~Samuel Butler


Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  ~Theodore Roosevelt


Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about.  But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.  ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982


Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.  ~Elbert Hubbard


On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved:  "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.  Yea, let there be daily renovation."  ~Confucian Analects


The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.  ~Jimmy Johnson


What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.  ~Samuel Johnson


To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.  ~John W. Gardner


There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.  ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)


Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.  ~William Hale White


Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter


Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.  ~African Proverb


One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.  ~Odell Shepherd