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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, The Son Of A Little-Educated Boat-Owner In Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, Had An Unparalled Career As A Defence Scientist, Culminating In The Highest Civilian Award Of India, The Bharat Ratna. As Chief Of The Country`S Defence Research And Development Programme, Kalam Demonstrated The Great Potential For Dynamism And Innovation That Existed In Seemingly Moribund Research Establishments. This Is The Story Of Kalam`S Rise From Obscurity And His Personal And Professional Struggles, As Well As The Story Of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul And Nag--Missiles That Have Become Household Names In India And That Have Raised The Nation To The Level Of A Missile Power Of International Reckoning.
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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam ( 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology….
A great leader should have the following quantities,
- Leader must have a clear vision.
- Leader must know how to manage success or failure. The success he is giving to his team whereas the failure the leader absorbs.
- Leader should have transparency.
- Leader must have a courage to take decisions.
- Leader must be able to travel into an unexplored path.
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“When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms.
When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates.
When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit.
When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.”
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“The past is waste paper. The present is a newspaper. The future is a question paper. So read and write carefully otherwise your life will be a tissue paper.”
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"If you want to leave your footprints
On the sand of time
Do not drag your feet."
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What is flow by KALAM?
Flows are moments of magic. Flow is a sensation we experience when we act with total involvement. During flow action follows action according to an internal logic. There is no hurry, there are no distracting demands on one's attention. The past and the future disappear.
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When you are doing it well? Dr. Brahma prakash to Kalam.
The reality of your own nature should determine your speed. If you become restless,speed up. If you become tense and high-strung, slow down. You should climb the mountain in a state of equilibrium. When each task of your project is not just a means to an end but a unique event in itself, then you are doing it well.
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These will fire up your spirit and bring our your inner greatness
Top 6 lesson learned from book - Wings Of Fire.
1)We are all born with a divine fire in us.
Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire.
Every person possesses extraordinary power within himself. Once we realize that power, we should not let that potential go to waste. We should take steps towards achieving our goals by knowing that we have the power and are capable of what we want to achieve. We should always keep that fire burning in our souls and let it guide us.
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2)Total commitment
2)Total commitment is not just hard work; it is total involvement.
Commitment is not just working 24*7 or working with no direction or just completing the work before you anyhow. Commitment is the way of doing your task by putting your whole and soul into it. Total involvement is- your attention should be only on your job but nowhere else. Total involvement means doing the work with great excellence.
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3) Problems are part of life;
3)Problems are part of life; sufferings is the essence of success.
365 days of the year are not the same. Everyone has to face ups and downs in their life, particularly on the path of achieving their dreams. But these obstacles do not come in your way to stop you. They come to teach you some lessons and to make you stronger than before. Sufferings might seem unpleasant; still, we should welcome them as we welcome pleasure because we can not really enjoy success until we have experienced suffering. We should learn from them, and we should use them as an opportunity to increase our standard.
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This earth Is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies;
Both seas within Him rest, and yet in that small pool He lies.
ATHARVA VEDA
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"Once you Decided to change the system, such problems have to be confronted"
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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts"
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Wings of Fire, Quote from the book 📚
For Most of her life, cricket's best friends were books.
Books accepted you the way you are and shared all their secrets with you.
Books never told you stop asking questions or accused you for being nosy and annoying. Books never said, "Cricket, you don't need to know that, mind your own businesses"
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All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds.
Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!
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Dream before they come true
Abdul Kalam taught us to dream before achieving a goal. He told us that it is not easy to reach the destination without dreaming. You will definitely get what you want in life, but before that, you have to dream to achieve it. So if you dream about something in your life that you want, then you have to fight for your dream and you will achieve it one day.
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He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is the one who knows himself.
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Be Stronger than your Fears and Bolder than your insecurities.
We all in our lives face these two things , fears and insecurities. But instead of always running far from these why don't we face them and bloom. This time I am here to give you some tips on it which will help you to over come your fears and get secured.Well by this I remember a very nice quote which I had read on this app only it was, Fears breaks much dreams than failure ever will.
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