A beggar was sitting at a train station with a bowl full of pencils. A young executive passed by and dropped a dollar into the bowl, but didn’t take any pencils. He then boarded the train. Just before the doors were to be close, the executive suddenly exited the train and went back to the beggar. He grabbed a bunch of pencils, and said, “I will take some pencils. They are priced right. After all, you are a business person and so am I,” and he dashed back on to the train.
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Discipline is an act of love. Sometimes you have to be unkind to be kind: Not all medicines are sweet, not all surgeries painless, but we have to use it. We need to learn from nature. We are all familiar with that big animal, the giraffe. A mama giraffe gives birth to a baby giraffe standing. |
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A little boy got angry with his mother and shouted at her, ”I hate you, I hate you.” Because of fear of reprimand, he ran out of the house. He went up to the valley and shouted, “I hate you, I hate you,” and echo returned, “I hate you, I hate you.” Having never heard an echo before, |
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A farmer slandered his neighbour. Realizing his mistake, he went to the preacher to ask for forgiveness. The preacher told him to take a bag of feathers and drop them in the center of town. The farmer did as he was told. Then the preacher asked him to go and collect the feathers and put them back in the bag. The farmer tried but couldn’t as the feather had all blown away. When he returned with the empty bag, the preacher said, “The same thing is true about your words. You dropped them rather easily but you cannot retrieve them. You need to be very careful in choosing your words.”
“Excessive talking does not mean communication. Talk less; say more.
A fool speaks without thinking; a wise man thinks before speaking.” |
We all know the story of the shepherd boy who cried wolf! The boy decided to have some fun at the expense of the villagers. He shouted, “Help, help, the wolf is here.” The villagers heard him and came to his rescue. But when they got there, they saw no wolf and they boy laughed at them. They went away. The next day, the boy played the same trick and the same thing happened.
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