By Dana Bosley
Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientist who became famous for his theory of relativity. His equation for nuclear reaction was basic in atom bomb experiments.
However, he was not always considered bright. As a boy he was so slow to learn to talk, that his parents thought him abnormal and his teachers called him a "misfit". His classmates avoided him and seldom invited him to play with them. He failed his first college entrance exam at a college in Zurich, Switzerland. But in time, he became world famous as a scientist and today his picture can be seen in many University dorm rooms.
Here are some of his thoughts on life:
1. Learn from anyone and everything.
One of Einstein's neighbors, the mother of a ten-year-old girl, noticed that the child often visited Albert's house. The woman was puzzled by this, and the child explained: "I had trouble with my homework in arithmetic. People said that at No. 112 there lives a very big mathematician, who is also a very good man. I asked him to help me. He was very willing, and explained everything very well. He said I should come whenever I find a problem too difficult."
Alarmed at the child's boldness, the girl's mother went to Einstein to apologize. Einstein said, "You don't have to excuse yourself. I have learned more from the conversations with the child than she has from me."
2. Be thankful for those who have come before you.
"A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving."
3. Preserve in spite of opposition.
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
4. Do it because you love it.
"Love is a better master than duty."
"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
5. Dream big.
"Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
6. Stay true to your values.
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life."
7. Belief in God.
"The need of the World is to listen to God."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
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