Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.
Focus on consumption, not production :(
Products that are sustainable are those produced and consumed locally; when buyers are able to witness the production process, they will demand that it occur in line with their values. When it's out of sight, it's difficult to get enough of them to care. Changing that may require more than a little magic.
Turn to imagination when you are in dark
Turn your face to Sun and shadows will fall behind you.
- Walt Whitman/Hellen Keller
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
- Terry Pratchett
Brew served while I travelled
Ambition can be made of anything. - HSBC Ad
You don't own a patke bag. You take care of it for the next generation. - patke bag Ad
The Joy of being somewhere else on holiday is wonderful, but getting there is not so much fun. - Marc Newson, designer
We would know when we were old because we'd tell a story more than once. Relating a story more than once would reveal that not only were our life experiences ever diminishing, but also how bourgeois and middle-class we had become.
[At parties] Dinner is more challenging because you are sitting with people for a protracted length of time. This requires telling them more than one story apiece.
- Melinda Stevens, editor, conde nast traveller
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
- Daniel J Boorstin
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
- John F. Kennedy
Where Liberty is, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin
Freshly brewed
To be a chooser, you need to stop being a beggar.
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Everyone wants to take a picture with Santa but not with the person wearing the Santa's mask. Such is the world
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Anything real is complex.
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Construction of mind is the biggest creative adventure one must embark upon every once in a while
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Travelling tells you what moves the world
The shoes and the bags
The lines, deadlines and the airlines
The dresses and the tresses
And all that in between
The work and the network
Suddenly thirst arose and told her version
Of what "really" moves the world
The air and the water
Thethe sunlit day and the moonlit night
The dreams in open eyes
Love love love
Hot food cooked right
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Gaps, Gaps
they fill the streets
Gaps, gaps
they make a treat
Gaps, they create wars
they bring closer, people apart
Gaps, they trigger a talk
Sometimes over a wine,
Others over a lil walk
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Happiness, It has its way
way to tease, way to appease
way to make u say "give me please"
Just to get that little happiness, we become willing to make others unhappy
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Every generation should avoid settling their score via their next ones
- Rahul Gupta
King of a different kind
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation and sale of any of the necessities of life. If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade with power to prevent competition and to fix the price of any commodity.
- Ohio Republican John Sherman said on the floor of Congress
Assumptions hold unlocked value
The harder we fight to hold on to a specific assumption, the more likely there is gold in letting go of them.
- John Seeley Brown
Software complexity address - tests/comments/QA/DB/code
The complexity goes somewhere. It's either into lots tests, or it's into something like shuttle style with lots of comments, or it's into a huge QA department, or it's into the type system / DB schema. It could even be going into the org structure! But something, somewhere is handling the complexity and it is doing so as a partial function to the economic importance of the software to the stakeholders of the software.
Look around, don't stare long
Sometimes we stare so long at the door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
- Alexander Graham Bell
La lumière de Lee
Those who are not aware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
- Bruce Lee
Identities, boundaries and violence
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
DNA of life with dreams
For someone who has a dream for the future, gossips, rumours, hardships and frustrations will always be part of your life.
- Jack Ma
Bullet Peace
He that desires peace prepares the bullet because not everyone wants it.
I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
Man vs Nature - Principles of territorial hygiene
Man-made chemicals have become closer to our notion of "hygiene" than nature-made creatures. We are nature-friendly only till nature remains within its territory.
buy but not sell the world
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
- Anna Lappé
Desire, Ability and Worth
The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing.
Control d desire
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Another definition
All failure is failure to adapt. All success is successful adaptation.
- Max McKeown, Author and Strategic Adviser
** I believe this quote needs to be seen in some context. Many a times, people infer being adaptive as in being less persistent on their goals.
Profound disease of thought
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence — whether much that is glorious—whether all that is profound—does not spring from disease of thought—from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Understand the nail before nailing it down
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Food, not just for thought :)
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
- Herman Melville(1819-1891)
Get real
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Profound
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.
Happiness
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
- Albert Einstein scribbled in a note
focal length
Everyone sees life through his/her own focal length...everybody carries their own set of lenses (wide angle, zoom, macro, fish eye, tele-photo).
- Hari Subramaniam
Just tryin to leave something behind
To my son,
the first song on my quotes blog as far as my memory goes
Love of duty makes sense
Love is a better teacher than a sense of duty.
- Albert Einstein quoted in "How to raise a creative child"
Change
Following quote from Federer helps prove that Change is the only constant.
Lets assume that there is a constant different from change. It there exists such constant, it will start moving backwards which implies change. Hence proved that change is the only constant :D
Perfect Quote
The perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other
- Kate Stewart, Loving the White Liar
Cycle of Life
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Turn off the darkness
The reality is that bad things happen when the lights have been turned off. That's what the bad guys want; You have to have the lights on, and show what this really is, and show that these are human beings and not names and statistics. They are living and surviving and caring for one another.
- George Clooney on White Helmets movie
End, the beginning
Every story has an end but in life every ending is a new beginning.
You don't give her respect. You give her whatever she asks for so you don't have to deal wit her. She's eight years old. She is not twenty-eight.
You don't give her respect. You give her whatever she asks for so you don't have to deal wit her. She's eight years old. She is not twenty-eight.
- From the movie "Uptown Girls"
Commodity
The people yes
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds,
The people so peculiar in renewal and comeback,
You can't laugh off their capacity to take it.
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds,
The people so peculiar in renewal and comeback,
You can't laugh off their capacity to take it.
- Carl Sagan
Drop
I am the fresh dew on the green grass
the tear in the eye during separation
and reunion part of rain
part of efforts, part of pain
efforts that win, efforts that go vain
I power the river, I make the cloud
clouds that make rain, clouds that burst
they have a separate word for my love "THIRST"
Written vs Truth
Over years, we have an inherent respect and trust for the written word. In the non-digital age, printing was expensive and restricted and the written word earned it's respect because of the care people invested in it before printing it. The digital age has democratised and commoditised printing. Our habits and trust still belong to the non-digital age. The only lesson to draw here is to check sources and not believe everything written on a webpage. It is easier said than done.
एक मीठी सी रचना
सुंदरता हो न हो सादगी होनी चाहिए
खुशबू हो न हो महक होनी चाहिए
रिश्ता हो न हो बंदगी होनी चाहिए
मुलाकात हो न हो, बात होनी चाहिए......!
यूं तो उलझे है सभी अपनी उलझनों में
पर सुलझाने की कोशिश हर बार होनी चाहिए.......!
इस जीवन की चादर में
सांसों के ताने बाने हैं
दुख की थोड़ी सी सलवट है
सुख के कुछ फूल सुहाने हैं
क्यों सोचे आगे क्या होगा
अब कल के कौन ठिकाने हैं
ऊपर बैठा वो बाजीगर
जाने क्या मन में ठाने है
चाहे जितना भी जतन करे
भरने का दामन तारों से
झोली में वो ही आएँगे
जो तेरे नाम के दाने है
- Unknown
How to flee into future
A successful company needs to become its own fiercest competitor, willing to create new offerings that ultimately kill off its existing cash cows.
Change driver
Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
Tagore's faith is a bird
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Focus Fresh Inc.
The secret of change Is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Grave mistake
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there; I did not die
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there; I did not die
Science and Religion
Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive. They share lots of common followers. Religion should not be considered a symbol of ignorance. Ignorance comes from many directions, including self-righteous atheists. Practice some tolerance.
- Rahul Gupta, rephrased a facebook comment from Alyssa Tyson
Direction
without clear direction, even the world's best vehicle and driver can take you nowhere.
- Rahul Gupta
The Job
"the job" is an artificial construct, in which work is managed and parcelled out by corporations and other institutions, to which individuals must apply to participate in doing the work.
If you want to understand the future, just look at what rich people do today.
privileged class experiences a taste of a future that could be the future for everyone.
man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.
- Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes
There may need to be two kinds of money: machine money, and human money. Machine Money is what you use to buy things that are produced by machines. These things are always getting cheaper. Human Money is what you use to buy things that only humans can produce. The key thing that humans offer that machines do not is ‘authenticity’.
- Paul Buchheit, GMail creator
Perhaps “Human Money” needs to be further subdivided into “Caring Money” and “Creativity Money.”
If “internet creator” were a company, it would be hiring faster than any company in silicon valley.
Drop by drop
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
- song, Allan Roberts(lyricist), Ella Fitzgerald(singer)
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Publicist
He [God] is the biggest underachiever of all time. He just has a good publicist, that's all. Something good happens, "It's his will." Something bad happens, "He moves in mysterious ways."
- Satan, End of Days
Correct to yourself
इन्सान खुद की नज़र में सही होना चाहिए, दुनिया तो भगवान से भी दुखी है।
A man must be right in his own eyes, the world's not happy even with God.
- पियूष मिश्रा (Piyush Mishra)
solved soul
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Time's a biilion
You don't need to wear an expensive watch to show the world how precious is your time.
Anything that keeps you awake at night should be worthy of your intellect and sleep.
- Rahul Gupta
Statistically
Averages seldom show the truth that details can never hide.
- Pankaj Chadda, Co-founder, Zomato
The need for knowing three R's, reading, writing and arithmetic is well understood. These do not take us far unless we acquire the fourth R, reasoning under uncertainty for taking decisions in real life.
From the attic of Atticus
My atoms love your atoms, it's chemistry.
She wore his compliments like diamonds.
It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways.
She wasn't looking for a knight she was looking for a sword.
- Atticus
Waste less, use more
Preventing waste is a better solution than recycling it.
- Article by Matt Stern
Weight can't be measured by height
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Judge meant
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Beware how you take hope from another human being.
Beware how you take hope from another human being.
Problem Solving
If the country had a million problems, it even had a billion minds.
- Narendra Modi in a speech
What's Right
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
- Edward Snowden
Not all science is good, not all men are bad
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
Example defines better than Argument
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Choice beyond a degree is chaos
There's a lot of research that says that consumers like choice, but they only like choice to a certain degree.
- Ben Lawrence, Professor, Cornell
Barometer of Monotony
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
- Mention: Shikha's Article
- Writer: Drake the rapper
Cut the chord, take a rebirth
Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and set themselves free from the fools.
Surest ways
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The surest way to lose self-worth is by trying to find it through the eyes of others.
- Becca Lee
Nobody more fashionable than Fashion
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
da Vinci's spell
They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
- Mark Twain
For the wise and the stupids
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Management
Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you'll be stuck with whoever's left.
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
Victor's way
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Those who live are those who fight.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
- Victor Hugo
After debt comes dignity
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Music to the ears!
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Real Prayer
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Dr. Charles
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Ford for mind
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Simplified Wisdom
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
Literate is not enough!
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Tactile bOOks
"... books are highly tactile objects and cannot be sold on the internet alone. The art of browsing and the serendipity of finding unconnected books are hard to emulate in the virtual world. The number of people who come in to find books, then to compare prices on their smartphones, while the slightly sensitive ones merely photograph the book and then order from home, only goes to validate my point."
- Ajit Vikram Singh, owner of Fact & Fiction bookstore, New Delhi
Battle's a mind game
All battles are won by mind for minds.
- me after reading "Jacques Mattheij" blog
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