Read at least one book each month

title : You don’t need a title to be a leader how anybody anywhere can lead anytime.author : Mark Sanborn

from the title main focus of book is leadership , i’ve been in some indirect charge of situation that i could hv done alot better or not been aware that i could step-up to take charge of.this one gives 5 keys of skills, each key as common told with stories of unsung heroes w/o a title.

key’s of leaderships :-
1-The power of self-mastery
2-The power of focus
3-Power with people
4-The powers of persuasive communication
5-The power of clarity
6-The power of execution (their we lays the geniality)
7-The power of giving

i liked most the comparison between leaders and common manager and trying to memorized so here it goes;

Manager/common people
have employees/react to change/have gd ideas/communicate/direct groups/try to be heroes/take credits/exercise power over people/tear them down.
tells/impress/try to be heard/explain/inform

Leaders;
win followers/create change/implement them/persuade/create teams/make heroes from everybody around them/take responsibility/exercise power with people/build people up.
sell/influence/try to be understood/energize/inspire

“better do something than doing nothing”
its easy and good read .. i liked to read such books from time to time

title : The Blind Owl
author : Sadegh Hedayat’
ratings: not clear yet
type : novel

Comments:

“All of life is made up of stories and tales. I must press the cluster of grapes and pour its essence, spoon by spoon, down the dry throat of this old shadow.”

“It has been known to make its readers suicidal, hence the banning in Iran.” huh?where that comes from? is ahmedi non-reformist-jad has sometime with it?

to express my feeling while reading this short novel ..it led me to feel like intoxicated guy ..even without red-bull could u imagine that! ^^>

it was easy-read , marvelous , exotic , detailed and dark with a reality flavor ..i couldn’t let it away from my eyes since i read it online.. finished in two days..exactly yesterday at 4a.m i read about the interpretations and analysis of this story .. but i like to stick with what the writer explained in plain simple .. whatever i say i couldn’t mention what exactly the point here .. it has alot of mysterious to offer and to measure from! i recommend to everyone.. its really good // THX Narcissa_S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Owl

some interesting quotes from the blind owl:

-I was talking to myself with immobile lips and with an inaudible voice!

-I want to pour, drop by drop, the essence, no, the bitter wine of my life into my shadow’s dry throat and say to him, “This is my life!”

-The story of my own past? Tales are means of avoiding the real, unfulfilled, unattainable desires imagined by various storytellers, each according to his own mentality and hereditary traits.

-What are days and months? Time loses its significance for one who lives in a grave. This room was the grave of my life and thought.

-The whole time my shadow was headless. My shadow did not have a head. I had heard that those whose shadow is headless die before the year’s end.

-Although at the time of death the blood ceases to circulate, and although after twenty-four hours some parts of the body begin to decompose and disintegrate, for quite some time the hair and the nails continue to grow. Do senses and thoughts also cease when the heart stops, or do they continue a vague life using what blood remains in the smaller vessels?

-I was still not used to this world in which I was living; what good would another world do me? I had a feeling that this world was not made for me but for a group of pseudo-intellectuals: a group of shameless, diabolical, rude, beggarish mule-drivers who lack insight and wisdom.

-Finally I realized that I was a demi-god and that I was beyond all the low, petty desires of mankind. I felt the eternal flux within me. What is eternity? Eternity for me was playing hide-and-seek with that whore on the banks of the Suren river; it was a momentary closing of my eyes when I hid my head in her lap.

-I am afraid to look out of the window of my room or to look at myself in the mirror, because everywhere I see a multiplicity of my own reflections. To be able to describe my life for my stooped shadow, I must narrate a story. Oh, there are so many stories about childhood days, loves, acts of copulation, weddings and deaths and not a grain of truth in any of them. I am tired of telling stories and of fanciful phraseology.

title : Voyage through time
author : Ahmed Zewel
ratings : 5.0/5.0
type : Autobiography

Comments:

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

One of the best biographies i’ve read so far..about the life and educational experiences of the first arabian scientist who won the nobel prize for his contribution in finding the femtochemistry’99, a reputed caltech faculty dr. zewel wrote about his most impressive moments of life from the beginning of how he’s been raised & influenced in egypt thru the unconditional love of working and researching that lead him to go to Us,facing new challenges ,learning again adapting and contributing while sticking to his idealism that leaning and working are the most valuable thing in life…all lead him with his team to nobel prize.

i can say i’ve enjoyed his style..stories..and talking about the history of egypt .. he give good opinions of how we can improve the education in the arab world .. he stated a strong message and example .. that we are as arabs lack nothing to be again a world wide contributors in our planet as we did creatively in the past.

viva FEMTO-LASER & FEMTO-CHEMISTRY

title : One Man Tango / dancing with life
author : Anthony Quinn / Daniel Paisner
ratings: 5.0/5.0
type : autobiography

Comments:

“Am I not a human ?? And isn’t a human a moron?”

This book is really an amazing memoir of a true human life and mixed experiences with all it fazes the good ones the bad ones the wired situationsthe wrong the right of a man who lived every inch of his life.

Anthony Quinn wrote brilliantly about what he faced, childhood, poverty, family, love affairs, Hollywood and how he fought to stay alive. His career and his previous jobs when he was young he worked almost everything around him from a shoe boy, cleaner, butcher, taxi driver and even boxer. athlogh he was very strong but his trainer said to him you aren’t a killer and in boxing u hv 2 be 1 to live.

He truly faced a hard life and admitted to take lots of wrongs decisions and few good ones. He’s a lover and a family man lost his first son and loved his father and grandmother… along the journey he found himself of being A true human artist” a painter , a sculpture , actor , an Architectural designer. with the mexican blood as a rebellion to dare the reality ..

This is one of the most enjoyable autobiographies I’ve read , I will always remember this book , it’s like a continuous drama ,each time I remember sumthin I say I was really lucky that this book found me !!

some quotes from Quinn:

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

I didn’t intend to become an actor.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who – he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You`ll never get that money from me.

title : Niccolò Machiavelli , the shadows of satan on earth &
title : The Prince
author: Niccolò Machiavelli
ratings: 5.0/5.0
type: Political science

comments :

Politics have no relation to morals
i remember last year at this same days , I was with my friend omar (now touring in California I guess) in graduations rehearsals. noticed he brought a small book with him and i asked abt it ,thu i didn’t make much attention to wut he was saying rather to the book title and the cover picture !! i memorized the name and decided to read it later as i was always busy that days.

the main book is a biography abut the famous author ,his other books and the renaissance age ..

the prince is a small rich compacted book contains some brilliant ideas in wut i think not only politics. while reading it I can smell the intelligence of this Niccolò guy in various sides

its a READ , and i’m proud to be a new “Machiavellian” .. the true side of wut i believe the author suggests !!

some quotes from Machiavelli :

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
“Never do an enemy a small injury.
“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans

“Few men are brave by nature, but good order and experience make many so. Good order and discipline in many army are to be depended upon than courage alone.

My fourth book from for dummies series ,
i read previously abt guitar , some photography and psychology chapters no more . but its really easy to read this kind of books with their organized and hints style :)

This book is about understanding more of one’s self and wut he want, while focuses on taking control and taking more chances in life , yeh made me thinking where am i in this food chain !!

400 pages back-to-back in 12 days wow ,
I believe i bet my own record :-)

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by: David Allen

Rough living : Un Urban Survival Manual
by : Chris Damitio

The white tiger
by : Aravind Adigo

Eleven Minutes
by : Paulo Coelho

A New Earth
by: Eckhant Tolle

title : Why Aren’t You Your Own Boss?
author: Paul & Sarah Edwards, Peter Economy

this book represent my first attempts for better understanding the endeavors of small business and finance in general

it talked about lots of entry issues I think, but mostly concerning the obstacles that holds us from achieving what we desire to , such us fear, procrastination and uncertainty and give a deep insight on those matters with lots of success stories

in general pleased with the book , next I want to concentrate more on personal finance and organizing before level-up any step.

title : The Devil and Miss Prym
author: Paulo Coelho
ratings: 4.5/5.0
type: fiction , literature

comments :
its my first Paulo’s Coelho , very interesting and mysterious realistic story of evil and good in every person heart and the struggle of who wins , that could be to any of us anywhere any time as the temptations won’t ever ends !

rich diverse characters , will always remember Chantal,the stranger, priest ,the old crazy Berta and others.

really enjoyed it , got inspired and got me thinking several times as the story progress and revels more information and character depth.

recommendation :
100% ya
as it was a tough month of me , I think 2 weeks is enough to finish it , I am a fan of Paulo now , suggest while reading to be continual and imitating the characters , depends on ur style

this major themes taken from Wikipedia express exactly what I feel and hope to give more attention to:

The book is deep in meaning;

-It teaches one to believe in nature
-ones responsible for actions happening around them.
-It makes one realize, most of what is already known, but never realized.