Tuesday, August 11, 2009

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO




Chateu D'if!

your walls, your dung filled floors, your gloomy surroundings, your hopeless enclaves and your terrible wardens! Two nights in your bossom and one is sure to loose his senses! You captured and imprisoned for three years and a decade! How cruel? how inhuman? In the end, a priest and a mantra: GOD WILL GIVE ME JUSTICE overcame. Now tell me, where lies your power? where lies your grip?


Monsieur Morrell is a very fine gentleman and an excellent portrait of the exemplary employer.


Edmund's determination carries him through hardships that pay off in the end. He's resolute, the kind whose kindness is larger than life. He survived betrayal, he survived the bitterness and envy of failures like Danglar and Fernand. He survived the Chateu D'if!


Fernand is driven by selfish desires and the love for a woman who could never be his to betray and kill the soul of a beloved friend. He is the kind who will kill for selfish interests regardless of the consequences.


GOD WILL GIVE ME JUSTICE!


A tutor among tutors!


Dangle, dangle Danglar!


'...where is he? where is Edmund?...'

This particular phrase captures for me, the depth of love this lady had for Edmund.

THINKING CREATIVELY

An idea is nothing more or less than a new combination of old elements

- Webb Young

An idea is delicate, it can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

- Charles Brower

We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval or rejection.

- Robert Grudin

LEADERSHIP QUOTES II

H. Ross Perot:

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Henrik Ibsen:

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Herbert B. Swope:

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

Isaac Newton:

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

James Callaghan:

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Kouzes and Barry Posner:

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

LEADERSHIP QUOTES

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Edwin H. Friedman

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Elizabeth Dole:

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

Eric Hoffer:

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

THIS LIFE

The road on which we trod

Is no easy a road

The fight which we must fight

Is no easy a fight

The successes we must chalk

Are no easy a thing to talk

At the end of the road however

We see hope that will not waver

Hope flowing from God almighty like streams

Like light from the maker, it beams

On this hope, our feet is established

On this hope, we will emerge accomplished

01-11-03

LOVE FULFILLED

I’ve spent my life looking for you

Finding you wasn’t easy a thing

Years of thoughts and questions

Moments of sighs and breathlessness

Have now turned into wonder and amazement

For a moment, I feel I’m not me

I have released the long dreaded

I have looked hard at what I call love

And dared to open my mouth

But love smiled at me, winked and beckoned me nigh

My heart is gladdened, my soul throbs with excitement

Welcome my love, welcome into a longing heart

I love you.

September, 2007

EVERYDAY

(Ode to Stethoscope)

Everyday, my thoughts spin round and round and settle on you

Everyday, thoughts of you give me a tingle and a stir

Everyday, I wish I were near you

Everyday, I keep loving you

Everyday, my love keeps growing for you

Everyday, I wish I could speak to you

Everyday, the first dial on my phone reveals your name

Everyday, I talk to God about you

Everyday, I wonder if you love me

Everyday, I wish you were in my arms

Everyday, I wish you knew how I feel

Everyday, I wish I could make you know how I feel

Everyday, I want to celebrate your good qualities

Everyday, I thank God for you

Everyday, you feel far from me

Everyday, I long for you

Everyday, I ask, ‘will you long for me?’

Everyday, I become a little bit afraid

Everyday, I feel you will not want me!

Emmanuel Amankwah (08-02-06)