A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes

it is essential for the nation to implement the e-governance process fast. While doing this, we must also have a quantitative measure of the impact of e-governance on our society. Every year, we must be able to measure the number of people who have been touched by the benefits of e-governance.

seen many happy times as well as those filled with problems. Through thick and thin, Sheridon has always been with me and has been of great assistance in whatever I do. May God bless him and his family. I would like to thank Sudeshna Shome Ghosh of Rupa Publications, who was with me from conception, design to the shaping of the book. She has been following up continuously, with perseverance, in bringing it out. I greet her

Dream is not what we see in sleep, dream is what that does not allow us to sleep..

the elected leader of the nation should be a creative leader, who walks the path of pursuing developmental politics, adopting cooperation and collaboration as the key to operational procedure and using the core competence of all parties — irrespective of party affiliations — as well as other able and creative minds from any discipline to realize the vision of an economically developed nation.

Till date, he has written twenty-eight books that range from the autobiographical to the inspirational and the spiritual.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.” — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

problem should not be the master. Take charge and become the master of the problem.

हम जब दूसरे से ज्यादा शक्ति हासिल कर लेते हैं तो सोचते हैं कि उन्नति के शिखर पर पहुँच गए हैं। मेरे विचार में, हमें ऐसे समय में ही पीछे मुड़कर देखना चाहिए और हमें पता होना चाहिए कि किन व्यक्तियों के कठिन परिश्रम तथा बलिदान से हमने अपने किले बनाए हैं।

India has 30,000 MW of captive power at present located in different industries. The suggestion is, we can increase this captive power in various forms to 60,000 MW (captive power generated by future industries) with a provision to feed into the grid unutilized captive generation capacity for meeting volatile supply of large scale renewable energy systems. All the captive power is powered by diesel fuel. By the new technology of emulsification which is an Indian innovation, 40 per cent fuel can be saved.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

I learnt that dreams should be those that keep us awake, they are ideas that become actions that lead to change.

I told them to take this oath: Today onwards, I will start a home library with twenty books, and out of which ten books will be children’s books. My daughter and son will enlarge this home library with 200 books. My grandchildren will build a great home library of 2,000 books. I consider our library a lifelong treasure and the precious property of our family. We will spend at least one hour at the library to study along with our family members.

My dearest wish was to reach for the sky. I actually wanted to be out there, up in the sky, among those stars, studying them, flying close to them, learning where they had come from. The wonders of the sky held a special fascination for me and if I knew then that my work as an adult would have me building satellites and rockets that travelled far above the earth and studied the sky and the land below, how happy I would have been!

89 per cent of input used for power generation today is indigenous, from coal (55 per cent), diesel and gas (11 per cent), hydroelectricity (21 per cent), nuclear power (2 per cent) and renewable (11 per cent). Solar energy segment contributes just 0.5 per cent of our energy production today.

We gain strength, courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot
– Eleanor Roosevelt