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Apple today officially unveiled the long-rumored iPhone 5C, a stepdown, less-expensive model to the flagship iPhone 5S,
which was also announced. The iPhone 5C will be available in five
colors — white, green, blue, pink, and yellow — with the 16GB model
priced at $99 and the 32GB version costing $199 (with two-year
contract). Sadly, yes, there is no supercheap contract-free version.

Design and feel
As expected, the phone has a polycarbonate (plastic) back. Jony Ive,
Apple’s senior vice president of design, described the iPhone 5C as
“beautifully, unapologetically plastic. Multiple parts have been reduced
to a single polycarbonate component whose service is continuous and
seamless.”
How does it feel in the hand? Remarkably solid and
dense, more like a candy-lacquered metal phone than a “plastic phone.”
The 5C has a steel frame under the polycarbonate, and the smooth finish
feels very hand-friendly. Hopefully it’ll stay scratch-resistant.
The
curved edges are a bit of a return to the older plastic iPhones, but
the phone’s squarer design still comes through: it has a flat back. It’s
a shinier, smoother, thicker device than last year’s fifth-gen iPod
Touch.

Specs: iPhone 5-esque

If you’re wondering what makes a 5C different from the now-discontinued
iPhone 5, it’s basically this: new colors and feel, better front-facing
FaceTime HD camera, and a slightly larger battery. Oh, and there’s no
64GB version: you’ll have to get an iPhone 5S for that.

Some of the specs Apple is highlighting include an A6 processor,
an 8-megapixel camera with a 3x video zoom in-camera app, an improved
front-facing HD camera, and 802.11 a/b/g/n dual band Wi-Fi, as well as
“more LTE bands for world coverage.”

The iPhone 5C weighs slightly more than the iPhone 5 but seems to offer slightly better battery life.

From a specs standpoint, the iPhone 5C appears to be a slight upgrade
over the existing iPhone 5. However, at 4.65 ounces, the iPhone 5C
weighs slightly more than the 3.95-ounce iPhone 5.

A first look at the colorful iPhone 5C (pictures)

            

         

         

            

         

         

         

The iPhone 5, which also runs on an A6 processor, will be discontinued,
but the iPhone 4S will stick around in an 8GB version that will be free
with a two-year contract.

Apple also introduced a new line of $29.99 cases
for the 5C, with multiple six color options available. The cases have a
“soft, matte” finish to contrast the glossy finish of the 5C’s back.

Apple said the 5C has “impressive battery life” and from a first glance
at the numbers, it appears to offer better battery life than the iPhone
5, particularly for Internet browsing on LTE (10 hours vs. 8 hours on
the iPhone 5). Standby time is rated at 250 hours compared to the iPhone
5’s 225 hours.

In all, this is pretty much what we were expecting the iPhone 5C to be
— a cheaper-to-produce version of the iPhone 5 that’s been jazzed up
with an all-new, colorful and shiny look. Those colored backs should
appeal to younger consumers, though it’ll be interesting to see whether
iPhone 5C owners choose to protect their phones with cases — made by
Apple or other accessory makers — or leave them exposed.

Albert Einstein’s Incredible Work Ethic: Lessons on Creativity and Contribution

As soon as he hung up the phone, Ralph Morse knew that he needed to get moving. He was still 90 miles away, and there wouldn’t be much time before people began to hear the news. Albert Einstein had just died.

Morse was a photographer for LIFE Magazine. He drove down to Princeton, New Jersey as fast as possible, but other members of the media had already been alerted by the time he arrived. Morse would later recall the situation by saying,

“Einstein died at Princeton Hospital, so I headed there first. But it was chaos — journalists, photographers, onlookers. So I headed over to Einstein’s office at the Institute for Advanced Studies. On the way, I stopped and bought a case of scotch. I knew people might be reluctant to talk, but most people are happy to accept a bottle of booze, instead of money, in exchange for their help. So I get to the building, find the superintendent, give him a fifth of scotch and like that, he opens up the office.” [1]

When Morse walked into Einstein’s office, he snapped a photo of the desk where Einstein had been working just hours before.

Nobody knew it yet, but Einstein’s body would be cremated before anyone could capture a final photo of him. As a result, Morse’s photo of Einstein’s desk would soon become the final iconic image of the great scientist’s career. [2]

Albert Einstein’s office just hours after his death on April 18, 1955. (Photographer: Ralph Morse.

The Work Ethic of Einstein

Einstein died of internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, a condition he had struggled with for years.

In 1948, seven years before his death, Einstein had surgery to prevent the “grapefruit-sized” aneurysm from rupturing. [3] One physician familiar with Einstein’s case wrote, “For a number of years he had suffered from attacks of upper abdominal pain, which usually lasted for 2-3 days and were often accompanied by vomiting. These attacks usually occurred about every 3 or 4 months.” [4]

Einstein continued to work despite the pain. He published papers well into the 1950s. Even on the day of his death in 1955, he was working on a speech he was scheduled to give on Israeli television and he brought the draft of it with him to the hospital. The speech draft, shown below, was never finished.

The final document worked on by Albert Einstein, a draft of his speech for Israel’s 7th  

Anniversary .

(You can read more about Einstein’s life in Walter Isaacson’s fantastic biography Einstein: His Life and Universe).

Contributing vs. Consuming

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

—Albert Einstein

Einstein’s most famous contribution to science, the general theory of relativity, was published in 1915. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921. Rather than assume he was a finished product, Einstein continued to work and contribute to the field for 40 more years.

Up until the moment of his death, Einstein continued to squeeze every ounce of greatness out of himself. He never rested on his laurels. He continued to work even through severe physical pain and in the face of death.

Everyone has a gift to share with the world, something that both lights you on fire internally and serves the world externally and this thing–this calling–should be something you pursue until your final breath. It could be your actual job, as it was for Einstein. It could be a creative hobby, as it was for Vivian Maier. It could be the care you provide to those around you.

Whatever it is for you, our lives were meant to be spent making our contribution to the world, not merely consuming the world that others create.

“I have done my share.”

Hours before his death, Einstein’s doctors proposed trying a new and unproven surgery as a final option for extending his life. Einstein simply replied, “I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.” [5]

We cannot predict the value our work will provide to the world. That’s fine. It is not our job to judge our own work. It is our job to create it, to pour ourselves into it, and to master our craft as best we can.

We all have the opportunity to squeeze every ounce of greatness out of ourselves that we can. We all have the chance to do our share.

My Favorite Inspirational Quotes

I love quotes because it consists of so much experience and journeys of someone inside a short sentence. It is like a picture that tells a thousand words, a quote shared a thousand steps of experience. It can even be the sentence that keeps you going, with your great times and also hard times. Somehow it will provoke your thought and actions to be different than you used to take, and grows within one’s wisdom.

Hereby share with everyone some of the great quotes I love, and I do create a separate Quotes post for some of the Quotes here, as they’re great and I love to share with everyone these beautiful quotes of Wise people.

1. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. | George Edward Woodberry

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2. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. | Aristotle

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3. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. | Friedrich Nietzsche

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4. Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. | W. Clement Stone

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5. Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. | Mark Twain

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6. Great minds discuss concepts,

Average minds discuss events,

Small minds discuss others,

Minute minds only discuss themselves. | Eleanor Roosevelt

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7. Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. | Albert Einstein

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8. Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. | Charles W. Eliot

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9. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Lao Tzu

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10. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough: we must do. | Bruce Lee

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11. If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. | Steve Jobs

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12. I’d rather be hated for who I am,
than loved for who I am not. | Kurt Cobain

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13. Never let your memories be greater than your dream. | Doug Ivester

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14. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. | Oscar Wilde

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15. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right. | Henry Ford

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16. Everyone thinks of changing the World, but no one thinks of changing himself. | Leo Tolstoy

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17. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. | Seneca

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18. If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. IF you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there? | Les Brown

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19. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. | Gordon R. Dickson

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20. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. | Confucius

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Remember that quotes are beautiful, but if you just remember it without it inspire you to take real actions to change and moving forward in a better way, it is useless.

So what is your favorite quote/s that inspire you all the way down the road? Let’s share it in the comment box down here.