Not fitting! - Clothes or You?

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

True Yoga

Perform your duty equipoised ... abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.

Bhagavad Gita 2.47-48

Conway’s Law restated :)

In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on - This person must be fired.

a momentary perspective

Society cruelly defines life's milestones.
- rahul gupta

open your gift

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package.

- gmail status of rohan mandora

Stand or perish

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Desire

Either we do what we desire or we desire what we do.

- gmail status of rahul upakare

Future makes no announcements

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

True Christmas

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

La vérité universelle - une crédible, l'autre ne l'est pas crédible

If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a park bench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure.
- gmail status of ankit garg

Something on Tech side

We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error. The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation.

- E.W. Dijkstra
(thanks to venkat for sharing the quote)

A sentence for those in people business

They need to be the folks people want to talk to, not those people have to talk to.

Them And They, Us and We

And Floyd says:

"Us, and them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows its noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end its only round and round."

Punishing innocence invites turbulence

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Free but expensive counselor

Time is the wisest counselor.

- gmail status of rohan mandora

H stands for both Holiday and Hell

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Professor's words

Positive statements must be given Preference.

Don't look at my finger... Look at the big plane pointed by it...
(He's using it to describe - don't get fascinated by little things, but see the bigger picture)

- Prof. Ashok Amin in his class

Failure brings fame to the famed

Many people realize their hearts' desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.
- gmail status of ankit dangi

It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere. :)
- gmail status of pawan sabharwal

Great men get noticed when they fail, ordinary men when they succeed.
- gmail status of chintu



Two nice quotes of profound nature

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that
you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that
you are still paying for - in order to get to the job that
you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and
the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

- rahul upakare
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates


Teach to multiply

When one teaches, two learn.
 

How to get wealthy?

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.

Does M think?

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Darkness demands more focus

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle Onassis

cyclic working

Working is like riding a bicycle. If you fall off, you die.

blame game

आपस में लड़के टूट गईं डालियाँ तमाम नाकामियों का बोझ हवा के सर गया
- gmail status of ashutosh

share light, share flame

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
- gmail status of rahul upakare

Listen sound of mistakes, see path shown by obstacles

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
 

Count Contentment and not numbers

Contentment is the highest gain,
Good Company the highest course,
Enquiry the highest wisdom,
Peace the highest enjoyment.

use muscle of courage wisely

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
- Ruth Gordon
[...] begin [each new day] serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

world is a Mirror

A loving person lives in a loving world.
A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Everyone you meet is your mirror.
- gmail status of tarun bajaj

serve love to the less deserved

Love me when I least deserve it, because thats when i really need it...
- gmail status of santosh

Poor?

Poverty needs to be interpreted from a non-materialistic perspective too.
- Rahul Gupta

In Woodrow's woods of quote plants

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels.
The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.


Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and
when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy.
Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light.
You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day
before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Common Prejudiced Sense

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

God's curry is our life

In the sunshine and in the shadows, through the calm and the stormy days, when life is good and when it's hard, when things go well and when they fall apart, may I know deep within my spirit that God is still smiling, and all will be well.

Amen.
- orkut profile of Govind Kaushal

:)

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

What is Wrong?

If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
gmail status of pawan sabharwal

If everything is coming your way, everyone else is in the wrong lane.
gmail status of chetan gangwar

Move on

Don't cry because it happened; smile because it's over.
- gmail status of santosh (muttu)

Faraday's perspective

Faraday's theoretical and experimental work made the electric generator possible but he didn't pursue the practical applications of his discoveries. When Gladston saw Faraday's laboratory demonstrations, the story goes, he asked about their utility. Faraday replied, "Of what use is a baby?"

page 279

Move out to change perspective

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
- Aldous Huxley

Heresy - Experiment with truth

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
 - H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

Pride is a personal commitment

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Run your own show

Having a role model in life is a great thing to have; one who provides us with direction and inspiration.
However, we will forever be restricted by that person's limitations if we live within their boundaries.
Be influenced, but set your own standards and develop your own principals, if you are ever to live beyond ...

- gmail status of ajay rahar

Free-dom

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.


A techie liner

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
- Edsger Dijkstra
gmail status of venky
Inspired from Sir Djikstra, An attempt to write geeky two liner :)

Programmer: Hey Program! Why don't you just reset the variable in the corner
Program: Please don't bug me. Hey Tester! where have you been these days. See na, this ** programmer is bugging me.

I have a time machine :)

We all have our time machines.
Some take us back, they're called memories.
Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu

founder of Taoism,

author of "Tao Te Ching"

("The Book of the Way")

600 BC-531 BC


Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

- Albert Schweitzer

German medical Missionary

1952 Nobel Peace Prize

1875-1965

Puppets and Voters

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Change what you can, leave what you can't

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- gmail status of santosh (muthu)

principal constants

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
- Stephen Covey
aas keh rahi shvans se, dheeraj rakhna seekh
bin maange moti mile, maange mile na bheekh

Hope says to breath, keep patience
diamonds come when you don't ask for, constant begging doesn't fetch anything

"... janam bhogi nahi karamyogi ..."

"rajya raja aur rajkumar dono se bada hota hai"

hans karm aur gyan k do pankhon k sahare hi ud sakta hai
bole to theory and practical ka right mixture ;)

- mahabharat

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In great joy never make promises to anyone. And in great anger never answer anyone.
- gmail status

Question > 1000 * Statements

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

IT

ago it laid ago it would
ago it would die why not it should
when people don't care when they should
it also gives up saying "why I should"

Anais Nin - she thought differently

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

After death, all is mud

Once the game is over, King and Pawn go into the same box.
-  gmail status of ravi dalal

Questions - sign of a conscious intellect

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso

Their Cogitations

Distance does to relationships, what air does to fire ... the weak flame extinguishes & the strong one gets fiery!
- gmail status of abhishek agarwal

Expectation without Communication is bound to be a disaster.
- heard in IIT-Kanpur

a great idea asks for plurality

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

find and not seek

Je ne cherche pas. Je trouve.
I do not seek. I find.
- Pablo Picasso

Faith starts from oneself

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

ma foi

Faith, Discipline and devotion makes you worth for everything.

Mind on Fire

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
- Plutarch                           
  gmail status of pravin shinde

Check before Crack

Before taking down a fence, it may be a good idea to find out why it was put up.

- gmail status of sawani bade

:)

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

- gmail status of amol suroshe

On a lighter note :)

You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from the bear.

- gmail status of sandeep bansal

Toleration

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle

 - Helen Keller

Sun is democratic

The sun that melts the butter, also strengthens the clay.
- gmail status of ankit dangi

Rita Mae Brown

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Belief makes a difference

Magic of believing - It's not over until I win

- gmail status of peeyush chomal

Commitment

Birds that live in a lake will fly away when the lake dries up.
But the lotus in the same lake dies with the lake.
That's the commitment in a Relationship.

- gmail status of piyush sharan

Accomplishments involve risk elements

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

traveller must understand obstacle's language

musafir aagar thokar khaa kar na samjhe to kya
raaste ke pathar to apna farz nibhaate hain

- gmail status of udayan kumar

Success needs Fire

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

- Arnold H. Glasgow
gmail status of deepali nemade

Second's love can mean lifetime

Love me for a second, and I will make that second last a lifetime.

- unknown
gmail status of chintu sir

For Todo list

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Direction of Effort

Its just that most of us spend too much time winning the wrong contests.

- gmail status of sachin anklekar
Sometimes, direction of effort is more important than victory.

Action

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Liking requires effort

Liking new things takes so much effort.
You have to learn all these unfamiliar characters
or remember completely new lyrics. It's much
easier to like something that you already know about.

- Lore Sjöberg in his WIRED blogpost titled Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts

Just Good

I am interested in the good in you.. the rest you can keep it with you.

- gmail status of sobi

The Mistake

Not admiring a mistake is a bigger mistake.

Wood's Will

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.


Making real dreams

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

FutureLand

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

- gmail status of abhishek jain

WILL will find way

A will finds a way.

Give up but -ve thought

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

- HG Wells

For some people, giving up doesn't come easy.

Untimely Art is timely

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
- Orson Welles

Dictionary Success

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Choose to Love

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Never ending ends

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Stimulation is not always Motivation

Scientists, like other people, crave power, money, respect, and influence, and they also fear for their jobs. Each can be a healthy motivator, but each has the ability to turn a good scientist into a bad one; and in some cases, they can turn a good scientist into a charlatan. 

- Iddo Genuth, Book Review of "Imaginary Weapons"
http://www.tfot.info/book/3/the-bomb-that-never-was.html

Be an incense, Be the change

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.


Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Actfully Think

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- gmail status of sobi

Question and Answers

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

- Mahfouz Naguib 

ls -l life

sair kar duniya mein gaafil
jindgani fir kahan
jindgani gar rahi tau
naujawani fir kahan


Life's length is uncertain
travel the world o Unaware
even if life remains
the youthfulness might not be there

- Ghalib

Good

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Confidence raining

Once, all village people decided to pray for rain.
On the day of prayer all people gathered and only one boy came with an Umbrella, that's Confidence.
- gmail status of pravin

About Confused Souls

Life does not imitate art. It imitates bad television.

- Woody Allen

Success of any education is a direct measure of confusion that it creates.
- shriram's blog entry

When in doubt, I wander. When not in doubt, I wonder.
- A. Luhar

prepossessed

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

- gmail status of abhishek jain

Fully Precise

Reading makes a full man, speaking a ready man and writing, a precise one.

- Apoorv's English professor

Hope

 Keeping hopes may not improve your future, but it will certainly reduce the pain of Today

- gmail status of kanika

Just vs. Must

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Lie, a theft of truth

There is only one sin. And that is theft...When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.
- gmail status of rohan mandora

Know this

He who knows others is wise, He who knows himself is enlightened.

- gmail status of AJ

No Sorrow Marketing

There is no market for your sorrows…So never advertise your grief..

- gmail status of Prashant More

Probability ... is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
-
Nassim Taleb, Author of "Fooled by randomness"

Another quoty P

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
 
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.  

Sacredness lies within mind

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- gmail status of deepali nemade

Inner Flame

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

- Albert Schweitzer
- gmail status of kanika

Silent Smile

Silence on Lips may avoid many problem & smile on lips may solve many problem, so always have silent smile!!

- shared by ankit garg

Gaulle - A quoty man

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.


In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Never relinquish the initiative.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Readers Digest books

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Nation from Gaulle's eyes

No nation has friends only interests.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

An Ageless Quote

Youth has no age.

Animalism, more humane than humanism

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Strategy, Preparation, Fastness, Victory

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

- gmail status of pawan sabharwal
It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.
- gmail status of atishay

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Charles de Gaulle

Starry Shoot

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Multiply

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

When x becomes y

When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.

- W. Szymborska
Source - Reply to peeyush blog entry

When Time is the Canvas

 Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

It steals when you are still

We stall, we hesitate, we worry. While an age steals our moments.

- Bharathiyaar
  gmail status of shriram

A brainy quote

At work, the most difficult is to light the little lamp of the brain.

- Jules Renard

It depends :)

"You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry ain't coming."

- Christopher Gardner quotes his mother Bettye Jean Triplett

B+

If your mind is positive, you would like all the people in the world.
If your tongue is positive, all the people in the world will like you.
- gmail status of amol

victoryphilia causes failphobia

Plus un gars flambe dans la victoire, plus il a peur de la défaite.
The more a guy is carried away in victory, the more he is afraid of failure.

- Michel Novak

YAKEEN KARO WOH MAUT BHI BADI SUHAANI HOGI
JISME HAMARI DOSTI VIRAANI HOGI
CHALO VAADA RAHA TUMSE PEHLE HUM JAYENGE
KYONKI TUMRAAHE SWAGAT KI RASAM BHI TO NIBHAANI HOGI

- gmail status of mayank

No iComplex please!

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

-Aristotle Onassis

If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

ReOrganize

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day needs to reorganize his life.

- George Matthew Adams

Take the charge Soon!

 Life loves to challenge, why not take the charge?

- gmail status of ankit dangi
Biggest Price that one can pay to success - Time.
- my gmail status

The Timekeeper Time

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

- gmail status of abhishek dhiman

Strategy and Result

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

- gmail status of sharan

Erroneous Success

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Cooperation

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
- Virginia Burden Tower, author
gmail status of deepali

Money - A piece of paper with no dustbin to throw

I met money one day. I said,"You are just a piece of paper." Money smiled and said, "Of course I'm a piece of paper, but I haven't seen a dustbin yet,in my life".

- gmail status of rohan mandora

Run towards it not away from it

What you run away from, runs towards you. Fears you do not climb become walls around you.
- gmail status of sobi

Can the cannot

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Sound of time

tick..tick..tick... Time has only one sound to make... and leaves people to interpret it in their own way
- gmail status of hari

Ideas are immortal

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

- John F. Kennedy
Death can limit Life but not its Imagination.

correct way to correct

object oriented way to correct things... each one correct their own

Sticky Books

A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early
- gmail status of akhilesh

Best New Year wish

May every eye continue to see dreams and every head find ways and achieve them. Best wishes, folks :)