Getting things done is not the same as making things happen.
- gmail status of rahulu
try-angle
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
- gmail status of rahulu
success sum
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Quotable people's quote :)
Don't compare man, you will die, find your own niche.
- ishu bhatia
The true luxury is in your relations...
- kavitham
sky my roof, earth my floor
No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.
- Michael O'Muircheartaigh
ना रख अपने आप को, तू इस तरह संभाल कर, एक चादर को ओढ़, अपने कंधे पर डाल कर, समुंदरी शीत लहरों का प्रभाव, तुझसे कभी न रुकेगा, कुदरत की कहर के आगे, तू भी मिटटी में मिल जाएगा.
- gmail status of ankit dangi
everything is crack+
There is a Crack, a Crack in Everything / That's How the Light Gets In.
- Leonard Cohen
The right Qs
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Middle path towards better environment
... the problem can be very easily solved by everyone giving up N things. But very few people in the free world would be willing to do that. So we'll have to rely on most people giving up 1 or 2 things out of their own list of N things. For me, I didn't give up living in suburbs. But I
- wear a jacket at home in winter instead of turning on the heat
- use a fan in summer instead of AC
- line-dry my laundary in the backyard instead of using the gas dryer
- skip the plastic or paper bags when grocery-shopping
- gave up my SUV and got a Prius
- and literally dig through the household trash to find recyclable and compostable items that my wife and in-laws fail to separate out.
--- OP on berkeley's MOTD
As Putt puts it
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.
- Louisa May Alcott
1832–88, American author
1832–88, American author
PS - Not able to come up with a title for last few weeks for the quotes I like. Mind seems to have got shot at point Blank range. :(
A very pertinent question
ask whether we are working for tomorrow's history or for tomorrow's future?
- gmail status of ankit dangi
Life, the LIVE movie
The world is a stage and forget about the script, they didn't even let me rehearse once...
- gmail status of tarun bajaj
Act like a fellow warrior
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato
- gmail status of nandini
Life and Death
Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.
-- Elbert Hubbard
It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. -- Anaxandrides
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask "Compared to what?"-- Sydney Harri
People! :)
When I say "I talk to God", people accept it as a prayer- When I say God talked to me, suddenly I am a schizophrenic.
- gmail status of tarun
forget is an inverse function of itself :)
The more I try to forget you, the more I forget to forget you.
- gmail status of paras kapoor
Man, The Seeker
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs,alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Best Dussehra Wish
May we better our gods and not use their failures as an excuse to repeat the same in ours. Amen.
- Peeyush
May God bless us in this manner
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate,
to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
True learning from True Problems
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that didn't work out. That's when I've really learned.
- Carol Burnett
Worth of a difference?
... no difference or division is worth destroying all that we have built and all that we love.
Life's length
Life's too short and life's too long,
to be somewhere you don't belong.
- quote from an online pal
All about BOXing!
All Companies want to hire best out-of-the-box thinkers to help them box their customers into their products.
- said Rahul Gupta :)
Inspired by "Thank you for Smoking"
Inspired by "Thank you for Smoking"
Dream On!
Live for a dream, Fight for a dream, Die For a Dream... Arise!!!
- gmail status of sourav dutta
Baby Morning
Do not say: ''It is morning,'' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Efficiency can be an Efficient Threat
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
Destiny of Red River
Rivers of Blood never find an Ocean. :-/
- Translation of a song line from Kaminey
human parameter in the inhuman equations
The concern for man and his destiny must be the chief interest of all
technical efforts. Never forget this among your equations and diagrams.
- Albert Einstein
A point of view
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III
- gmail status of rohit gupta
- gmail status of rohit gupta
Apology - Ego's free fall
Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong and the other one is right... It simply means that you value the relationship much more than your ego.
- gmail status of amol
Amusing :)
I might think about it a little bit and if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else, but I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious Universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.
- Richard Feynman
HI - Sometimes it's a hard world for small things.
Ed McDonnough: You mean you busted out of jail.
Evelle: No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
Gale: What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.
- Movie: Raising Arizona
PS - Don't know where to put dialogues. After all, aren't they quotes phrased in a palatable manner.
Turn for your turn to Challenge
There are challenges all around you. Just keep turning.
- gmail status of ankit dangi
Perform Addition on the set of lives around you :)
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
Image doesn't reflect well at times
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Endurance is the Path
May we discover through pain and torment, the strength to live with grace and humour.
May we discover through doubt and anguish, the strength to live with dignity and holiness.
May we discover through suffering and fear, the strength to move towards healing.
May it come to pass that we be restored to health and to vigour.
May Life grant us wellness of body, spirit, and mind.
And if this cannot be so, may we find in this transformation and passage
moments of meaning, opportunities for love
and the deep and gracious calm that comes
when we allow ourselves to move on.
Stop the Chase but not the Run
There's a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but its not giving up.Its realizing that you don't need certain people and their crap.
- SnowBrain
Real World Education
Few people get education without going to college, Others get after getting out :)
- gmail status of ashish paliwal
Excellent one
Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency.
- gmail status of ashish paliwal
Pits and Skies in the writer's world
"for a writer to desire spiritual security is as fatal as an aspiration to material pleasure. For a writer, every place of refuge is a pitfall; you fall once, and the clear sky of creativity is lost forever."
- Nirmal Verma in Dhundh Se Uthti Dhund
(thanks to pallavi for sharing it)
(thanks to pallavi for sharing it)
Life, a life long teacher
Whether you like it or not, life will keep giving you lessons till you die.
- peeyush chomal
Unload with Apology
Apologize and move on.....Life is much simpler that ways. You travel with less hatred, less guilt and more peace.
Watch your Day out!
Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us.
Hats All to Walpole
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
- Horace Walpole (English writer, connoisseur, and collector, 1717-1797)
Suffering Installments of the Principal Fear
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
- Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk, Kentucky, 1915-1968)
Ashes must not choke Fire
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
- H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Old Friends
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age Difference
I have reached the age in which
One forgives all.
I am ready to forgive friends
their loving,
forgive those who ruined friendships
and those who forgave
and stayed on to love.
But I shall give a lot to get
One of my foes today
For a quiet picnic
Somewhere.
Not having met for ages
we shall have so much to say.
- Kamala Das (Excerpt written by her as mentioned in a Mint article)
Love
You Know It's Love When All You Want Is That Person to be Happy, Even If You're Not Part of Their Happiness.
- Julia Roberts
Fly and not Cry on your broken Cocoon
Only a broken cocoon headstarts caterpillar's journey towards a butterfly.
A Grey Quote
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- Hamlet, Act II, Scene II
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
do you add?
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
- gmail status of amit gupta
some of the 1001 rules
You won't always be the strongest or fastest. You can be the toughest.
Draw what you see, not what you think is there.
Philanthropy is not measured in dollars and cents.
Never go out of your way to be on TV.
It isn't the mountains to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe.
- Muhammad Ali
When using a saw, patience not strength is needed to make the smoothest cut.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Robert Anson Heinlein
Nothing good ever happens after 3 am. I promise.
You can lead a man to the university, but you can't make him think. Finley Peter Dunne
Sit in the front of the classroom. You'll be closer to the door when the bell rings.
I Feared Until
I feared being alone until I learned to like myself.
I feared my destiny, until I realized that I had the power to change my life.
I feared failure until I realized that I only fail when I don't try.
I feared success until I realized that I had to try in order to be happy with myself.
I feared people's opinions until I learned that people would have opinions about me anyway.
I feared rejection until I learned to have faith in myself.
I feared pain until I learned that it's necessary for growth.
I feared the truth until I saw the ugliness in lies.
I feared life until I experienced its beauty.
I feared my destiny, until I realized that I had the power to change my life.
I feared change, until I saw that even the most beautiful butterfly
had to undergo a metamorphosis before it could fly.
Life, a partial Cure
Death is the only panacea but then I am okay with partial cures.
- gmail status of anand
Generation Religion
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry Thoreau
Tear gives a miss during its fall
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the star.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When He makes a shake of ours
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Quote for the Coder
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
- Brian Kernighan
Use Brains, not Brain
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson
Darkness has its own light
All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss we learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this.
- E.W.Wilcox
Pleasing everybody may unlock Failure
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Law
Niche quotes from Nietzsche
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.
Reform
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Change Attitude to conquer Altitudes
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James,
American Philosopher (1842-1910)
American Philosopher (1842-1910)
problem solving ego
At times our inability to locate the right problem hides behind our problem solving ego.
- Rahul Gupta
World is an example of a Real Illusion
Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Are you a hammer?
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Viral Quote
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ),
Does God believes in open source?
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
- Unknown
Source: Best Geek Quotes
बंधन की स्वतंत्रता
सारा जगत स्वतंत्रता के लिए लालायित रहता है फिर भी प्रत्येक जीव अपने बंधनो को प्यार करता है। यही हमारी प्रकृति की पहली दुरूह ग्रंथि और विरोधाभास है।
- श्री अरविंद
Joyous Silence
Some joys are better expressed in silence as a smile holds more meaning than words.
- gmail status of piyush
Rights
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson in "American Declaration of Independence"
Fate depend on Wait
How Long A Person can Actually Wait for IMPOSSIBLE to Happen...decides his FATE
- ishu bhatia
Shame can't be run away from, Disgrace may be
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
- Sophocles
(496 BC - 406 BC)
(496 BC - 406 BC)
Get Love in Power
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
Gifting Spirit
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-1894)
(1850-1894)
The Secret
The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
~ Eileen Caddy
Nightmare - Fetish of Attention
Nightmares have a knack of coming true since people worry more about nightmare(s) than working on their dream(s).
Weakness
You do not have any weakness, only untapped potential.
- Blogged by VishnuKanth, A DA-IICTian
Inaction isn't a penance for unpreparedness
Laying weapons in war* isn't an option even if you aren't prepared.
- Rahul Gupta
War is a metaphor here.
Be an enthusiastic Molecule
A molecule with lot of energy in form of enthusiasm is sure to develop strong bonds.
- Rahul Gupta
Crisis of Chinese
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
One needs Three
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
Travel with Confidence
Best Path for you is the one charted out by you. Travel with Confidence.
- Rahul Gupta
refined Mind, subtler Vulnerabilities
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Amusing Quotes
I'd be a morning person if it didn't start that early.
Financially I'm set for life.Provided I die next week.
I've forgotten more than I ever learned.
MOTTO: Don't tell your God how big your troubles are, tell your troubles how big your God is
- orkut profile of an online friend
Love's Beauty not Linda's
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
- Unknown
Aesop - soap for the soul
- Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
- It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
- Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
- It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
- He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
- The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
- Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
Whole or part, move forward
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.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dogly Human
A man's interactions with his fellow man are often not so different from a dog's interactions with a fellow dog.
- Albert Einstein
Malice like all commodities
... as all sorts of manufacture, so also malice increaseth by being vendible.
[in the old English]
... malice, like everything else made by men, increases when there is a market for it.
[in the modern English]
Education
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes
thanks to sawani for sharing it
thanks to sawani for sharing it
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