Personal Interests
I enjoy traveling, reading, playing soccer, racket ball, speed chess, mountain biking, aikido, Tai Chi, yoga, meditation, dance, movies, poetry, and skiing.
Academic papers
For further personal information and my academic papers, see www.yosiamram.net/papers/.
Favorite Quotes
A list of some of my favorite quotes follows:
“If you think you can or you think you can't you are right.”
“In becoming a champion, you learn a lot more from your losses than from your wins.”
“No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.”
“The true nature of anything is the highest it can become.”
“But what can a man 'create' if he doesn't happen to be a poet?... If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself?”
“The future stands in need of you in order to be born.”
“Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.”
“What’s the use of running when you may not be on the right road?”
“Leadership is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
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Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.”
“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain”
“If you want to be a leader, you have to be a real human being. You must recognize the true meaning of life before you can become a great leader. You must understand yourself first.”
“Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.”
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.”
“Once you have flown, you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return.
“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
“From the space between compassion and courage emerges freedom.”
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, while in the expert's mind there are few."
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.”
“I worry much more today about unquestioned answers than about unanswered questions.”
“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
“Never mistake motion for action.”
“The future ain't what it used to be.”
“Well done is better than well said.”
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
“Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.”
“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
“The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.”
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
“Life doesn't require that we be the best—-only that we try our best.”
“Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.”
“When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you begin to enjoy what is.”
“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude."
“I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a person who had no feet.”
“You can observe a lot just by watching."
“Any jackass can kick down the barn but it takes a carpenter to build one.”
“Answers make us wise. Questions make us human.”
“The only thing that exists is the present. It has no beginning and no end.The future is...Now!”
“Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance - sometimes it’s now or never.”
“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?”
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
“If you do what you've always done, You'll get what you've always gotten.”
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is, an idea whose time has come.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'why not?'”
“There is not heavier burden than great potential.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work."
“Self concept is destiny”
“Tell me, I may listen. Teach me, I may remember. Involve me, I will do it.”
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
“The key to growing up is to have one’s eyes opened without having one’s heart hardened.”
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
“Prepare now for death so as to intensify and fulfill your life.”
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.”
“Life is what is happening while you are busy making other plans.”
“An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.”
“Remember that all reality was once a figment of someone's imagination.”
“A happy life begins with tranquility of mind.”
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”
“I have seen so far because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“Keep me from the wisdom that does not weep, and the philosophy that does not laugh, and the pride that does not bow its head before a child.”
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
“Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
