I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of learning process. All progress in the world depends on these unreasonable men and their innovative and often non-conformist actions. Only a few unreasonable ones persist in adapting the world to themselves.

' Those things that hurt instruct'- Benjamin FranklinĪll reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. You can rely, yough man, upon this ageless prmise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire'.ĭesire when it stems from the heart and the spirit when it is pure and intense possesses awesome electromagnetic energy.This energy is released into the ether each night as the mind falls into sleep state. 'We are all born with a divine fire in us. Ill just mention few lines which i really liked from the book. Abdul Kalam, who became popular as ‘People’s President’, passed away on July 27th, 2015 at the age of 83 in Shillong, India.Īmazing book there are a lot of things to be learned from these books. He has the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from thirty universities and the country's three highest civilian honours - Padma Bhushan (1981), Padma Vibhushan (1990) and Bharat Ratna (1997).įormer President Dr. Kalam played a pivotal organisational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. He was responsible for the development of India's first satellite launch vehicle, the SLV-3 He is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology. During his term as President, he was popularly known as the People's President.īefore his term as India's president, he worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation).

He was an Aerospace engineer, professor, and chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Abdul Kalam, was one of India's most distinguished scientists.

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