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It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, (or the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by blue’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or \our own. Without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the lips of your lingers without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the lunilalions of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is I rue. I want to know if you can disappoint another to lie true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be laetrile and therefore be trustworthy.
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. 1 want to know if you can get up alter a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came lo be here. 1 want to know if you will stand in the center of the lire will me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. ] want to know what sustains you Irom the inside when all else falls away. I want to know it you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
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Few people today can afford the full purchase price of, house, and consequently most real estate is though with the aid of mortgage loans. Savings banks, savings and Joan associations life insurance companies and mortgage companies all specialize in lending money for the purchase of reinstate. The amount such organizations are willing to lend will depend on their appraisal of your financial stability. You. as the buyer, agree to repay the principal amount of the1 loan plus interest at a fixed rake on a monthly basis for as long as thirty years. The key provision1 of a mortgage loan is that the property which is the subject of the mortgage that is. the properly you are borrowing money to buy -becomes ihe security for the loan.
A mortgage loan ordinarily involves two parts. The bond is simply the written agreement between the lender (the mortgagee) and the borrower (the mortgagor) staling the amount of money involved and the terms under which it is to be repaid. Specifically I should spell out the principal amount of the loan, the interest rate1, the duration of the loan and the periods at which payments are due. The bond is signed by the mortgagor and has the same legal effect as an ordinary contract or note. The mortgage itself is a separate document in which the borrower gives the lender an interest" in the properly as security for his loan. If the borrower fails to repay the loan as agreed in the bond, the lender can lake legal steps to assert' his right in the properly in order to recover his money. To protect the lender's interest in the properly, the mortgage is recorded with local officials.
The laws of the states in the United Slates differ on just what rights the lender, or mortgagee, gets when the mortgage is signed. In the great majority of state's today, the lender simply gets a lien8 on the properly as security for his loan. The differences that do exist have little practical consequence unless the borrower defaults". in which case both parties must seek legal advice about their rights.
Since most contracts for the sale of real estate contain a clause that makes (he actual transfer of ownership conditional on the buyer's getting the1 kind of mortgage loan he requires, the lender will customarily send the borrower a letter of commitment1" outlining the terms of I he loan which he has agreed to make. Once he has this letter in his possession, the buyer can proceed to the closing". If he cannot obtain a loan that he is able to bear, the buyer is released from his obligation1^ to purchase the house under the terms of the contract clause.
A person who has purchased property through a mortgage loan may obtain another mortgage on it if he can find a lender who is willing to assume the risk. Fins is called a second mortgage. The rights of the lender under the second mortgage are subject to the rights of the holder of the first mortgage. Let s say you borrow $ 20,000 from the Able Mortgage Company to buy your house and you give the company a first mortgage. Two years later yon want to make substantial'" improvements in the property and you borrow $8.000 from (he Baker Building and Loan Association, giving them a second mortgage. If you later fall on hard times and can't meet the payments to Able so that they foreclose" the first mort-gage. Bakers nghls under the second mortgage are good1'1 only if Able sells the house for more than you owed, in which case Baker may recover what he can from the surplus. Second mortgages are popular will) many lenders and are usually issued only at higher merest rales and for shorter periods of time.
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The would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Let me imagine, sinee facts are so hard lo come by. what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say. ' Shakespeare himself went, very probably his mother was an heiress to the grammar school, where he- may have learnt Latin Ovid. Virgil and Horace and the elements of grammar and logic. He was. it is well known, a wild boy who poached2 rabbits, perhaps shot a deer, and had. rather sooner than he should have done, to marry a woman in the neighborhood, who bore him a child rather quicker than was right. '
That escapade1 sent him to seek his fortune in London. He had. it seemed, a taste for the theatre; he began by holding horses at the stage door. Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody, knowing everybody, practicing his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets, and even getting access to the palace of the queen.
Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog'1 to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few pages.
But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moonboot with hooks and papers. They would have spoken sharply hut kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter•- indeed, more likely than not she was the…..
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As writers of instructions, you need to know about how the operations go. If such information is not available to you, interview someone who is familiar with the operations. Watch him perform the tasks, asking questions at each stage of operation. For certain operations, watching one operator may not be enough, as there are usually human variants in operation. Experienced operators may take harmless shortcuts in performing operations. In this case, you ought to observe a range of operators and identify all the necessary operations and take them as the safe procedure. A good understanding of each stage of operation can help you avoid giving confusing or inaccurate instructions.
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Little children look forward to the arrival of lunar New Year, adults to that of spring. When a child I couldn't understand what the elders hoped for. But New Year's Day was always the greatest red-letter day of all the year, for it meant the nicest food as well as a lot of fun, which was really fascinating. As soon as the festival was over, another one was my dream and I wished time flew as fast as possible.
Days spent in expectation come and go really very fast. Very soon I finished primary school, went to junior and senior middle school, and finally to college; with ever greater desire for more varied things: for graduation with honours, for an ideal job, for a successful career, for more earnings to share my parents' burden, for a satisfactory wife.... Climbing the upward steps of hope I had become a fully grown man before I was aware of it, a busy breadwinner with a family on my hands.
Life began to show its various facets. Whether I have turned more vulgar or great, I have always something to look forward to. It may be arrival of a letter, publication of an article, the bonus-distributing day, a gratifying resuit of something, a get-together or a pleasure trip...Such expectations serve as a prop to a person's faith in life.
A day without hope would be unimaginably pale. There must be something to look forward to each day to brighten one's life and keep it out of shadows. To a person cherishing hopes every morning rises a new sun. Even if it is a fantasy or an illusion, so long as it shows a ray of hope it still urges you on in pursuit of that little sparkle without letup.
Deprived of moisture content, soil turns into desert. Deprived of hope, what is there left to a person? A small hope sustains a person for a day, a great one for a lifetime.
Human beings cannot do without something to look forward to.
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Nobody can succeed easily. To sum up, to succeed involves two factors: internal causes and external causes. And internal causes determines the external causes. So internal factors are the most important factor. External causes are not crucial.
The ability to survive in a new environment and, eventually, to change it is included in the external causes. It can influence people when making efforts to succeed, but can not determine whether one can succeed or not. Then someone can't help asking what is the determined factor?
Internal factors, for instance one's major knowledge, one's psychology etc. Take a network engineer as an example. If they are not equipped with the knowledge and technical skills about of computer, how can they move forward one step, not mentioning success?
The best way to gain success is to equip with internal and external qualities and make full use of the two sides. The network giants can succeed, on one hand they have all the major skills, on the other hand, they can overcome the difficulties and survive in any new environment. Giving you a convincing example, I want to say the success of Shenzhou Five manned spacecraft. We should say the success of the Shenzhou Five involves the efforts of tens of thousands of Chinese scientists and technicians. But taking the astronaut Yang liwei as an exam-ple, he succeeded in the flight. First of all, the most crucial one is that he is familiar with all the skills of space
flight His good psychology, calmness in solving any problem is not shared by others. His ability to survive in the space is another contribution to his success.
So if you want to be a national hero like Yang liwei or succeed in your field, you also have to borrow from internal causes and external causes. But keeping in mind; only depending on external causes is not enough, e-quipping yourself with knowledge, strengthening yourself is crucial for your success.
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With the memorandum the sales director brings us exciting news but does not recommend wise policy. And one-sidedness seems to be the trouble. He has noticed, on the one hand, how effective Venadial is in reducing cholesterol levels and the risk of heart attack, and how well it sells in the country of Alta. He has miserably failed to see, however, the several factors that change Venadial into a problem medicine or food. Taking every factor into account, I recommend not obtaining "the exclusive right to sell it internationally," for the reason that our profits are not "sure to increase substantially," not to mention "in a very short time. "
It may be true that Venadial "is so popular that stores in Alta are unable to keep it on their shelves. " Nevertheless, produced and loved "only" in the country of Alta, Venadial is to customers in all other countries some-thing "new. " Well, "newness" is a merit in many products, such as games, clothes, and cars. But in food or medicine, newness is a sign of risk and danger, and brings about uncertainty and distrust in customers. When it is introduced into a new market, the customers will normally treat it extremely cautiously, asking such questions as: "Is it 100 percent safe to take it?" "Isn't it wise not to use it until five years later when it is absolutely clear that it has no side effect?" In a market filled with such doubts and questions, hesitation of customers will be the matter with your new product!
In the present case, things will only be worse, because it is already known that Venadial is derived from the " resin" of pine trees, which is well known as uneatable, and it works by activating a metabolic response that is "not yet well understood. " And this is the same as to tell bluntly that it is a food being tried out. Or, this is the same as for a doctor to say that "I know this substance is nice, but I don't know why. " Many people go to doctors when they plan to use a new "healthy" food. They ask them a lot of whys and hows. When they are told that something is being tried out, they turn away from it without hesitation. When a doctor recommends something yet admits that he does not "well understand it," he is ridiculed. But in most cases, doctors will not recommend such a food. From these it would not be difficult to predict that Venadial will not be recommended by doctors, whom customers of healthy food trust more than anyone else, and so much more than food dealers who are selling it for the sake of profit.
Under these circumstances, I am sure that Venadial, a problem food, will currently be received either with doubt or blunt refusal. Thus I recommend that our company either wait until everything about Venadial is "well understood," or obtain right to sell it in a few countries. And sell it only experimentally even there.
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Lying on my back in the wood and looking upwards is a very delightful thing. I feel that I am looking into a bottomless ocean, which also spreads itself under my feet.
Trunks of young birch trees look like silvery pillars covered with gray links and stand closely. Countless tiny leaves on the small trees give out a bright and soft sheen, and look as if they had been washed. The young bamboo trees are flooded with sunshine and are stirred by even the slightest breeze.
Sometimes a solitary buzzing wasp flies along. From time to time it stops to obtain nutrition from some flowers that happen to hang over its head, but it resumes its flight almost immediately to rest somewhere in the distance.
I have just picked a fresh new leaf from a nearby oak tree. The edges of the leaf prick my palm. They're jagged edges that curve in tight, symmetrical patterns running down to short, stiff points, like tiny needles or delicate cat claws. Veins lead back from each of points to the center stem of the leaf. When I turn the leaf over, it becomes a little boat. The veins are the ribs of the boat, the stem an inverted keel. The leaf has a bright and avocado color, like a light and pliant little boat which a child might play with on a pond. It smells faintly like an acorn.
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When Queen Elizabeth II visited the United States, people who were to meet her were given detailed and careful instructions on how to behave on the occasion. Protocol prescribes how to address royalty, how to walk and talk in the presence of royalty. This carefully choreographed ritual was rudely shattered when a woman in Washington, D. C, pushed protocol aside and hugged the queen. The queen was gracious, but it was an obvious breach of etiquette that only "barbarian" foreigners would commit. The American woman was not being disrespectful, but clearly her way of showing respect and welcome was different from the ancient tradition of keeping physical distance from superiors. When Queen Elizabeth visited Sydney, Australia, in 1991 as the honored guest for that country's 150-year celebration, the prime minister, Paul Keating, put his arm around her when ushering her into a room. The gesture was seen around the world on television. Mr. Keating had publicly stated previously that he believed Australia should be a republic and no longer accept the queen as head of state, Throughout Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand the gesture was discussed widely in the context of Keating's viewpoint. The British tabloids saw it as unforgivable rudeness, but many Australians saw it as the behavior of a strong, independent leader. The controversy continued long after the event.
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Fire, water, and air are three things necessary for human life. Without them, mankind could not exist. We need fire to provide warmth on cold days and to cook our foods some people use fire to provide light when it is dark. Water is necessary for all life on Earth. Without water , there would be no • plants or animals. Everything alive would dry up and crumble to dust. The air , we breathe is indispensable. Without air the earth would exist in a lifeless vacuum, just as in outer space.
But although these elements are very important, they can also be very dangerous. Fires destroy forests and houses, and kill animals and people. Heavy rains cause floods which wash away buildings and drown people. Polluted water kills fish and plant life and even kills people if they drink it. A tidal wave can wipe out an entire village in a few seconds. Air can be deadly too, if it is badly polluted. It makes animals and people very sick. Windstorms, or typhoons and hurricanes, can cause great damage wherever they happen.
But some of these things can be controlled. For example, if we are careful, we can stop air and water pollution and decrease the number of fires. But we are helpless against lightning, floods, tidal waves, and windstorms. We must learn to live with them because we could not live without fire, water, and air.
