Cogitation: 2010

Snack Time Quotes

Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

For every student with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far, so good!'

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Source: Bryan Wilkinson

Adieu to 2010

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (source link)

kabi rabi

Our country is the land of rites and ceremonials, so that we have more faith in worshiping the feet of the priest than the Divinity whom he serves.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

- Mark Twain

Don't be strangely known

It is good to be friends rather than known strangers.

- gmail status of ankit dangi

PS - I am slowly losing interest in maintaining this blog. It has been one of the things I have been consistent for a long time in life. I am sure there must be a gem lying in this blog that makes me do a comeback.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Lewis

AOL

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

- Henry Ellis

right quotes, right place

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

- Benjamin Franklin

जिस-जिस से पथ पर स्नेह मिला, उस-उस राही को धन्यवाद।
जीवन अस्थिर अनजाने ही, हो जाता पथ पर मेल कहीं,
सीमित पग डग, लम्बी मंज़िल, तय कर लेना कुछ खेल नहीं।
दाएँ-बाएँ सुख-दुख चलते, सम्मुख चलता पथ का प्रसाद,
जिस-जिस से पथ पर स्नेह मिला, उस-उस राही को धन्यवाद।

- Unkown
- shared by abhishek mehta

shades of change

Kadi dhoop se rahat mili bas abhi hi
ki ab gareeb ki chatt tapakti hai
Mausam ameero ki liye badalta hoga
gareeb ke liye dikkatt badalti hai.

- abhishek
- shared by ankit garg

Dream Dynamite

It takes one dream to break away from boundaries of realities.

- peeyush chomal

great and small, same and different

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

Winners [and Losers] Don't Do Different Things, They Do Things Differently.

- Shiv Khera's quote [with an addition from me.]

boxed freedom

Our freedom depends on five boxes: soap, ballot, jury, witness; and, when all else fails, Ammunition.

- unknown

madness explained

There are no mad people, you just can't hear the music they are dancing to.

- patrick's version of a proverb

Bugging quote

Bugs are like bugs, we are oblivious of their existence until they bite us hard.

- Kushlendra Mishra

Gravity of earthy love

"Gravity can not be held responsible for the People falling in Love."

- Albert Einstein
Thanks to rohit for sharing it

Al oh we eee

'Love' is a story for some, news for many and knowledge for rest.

- Mrinal Kanti Rai

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

- Philip Knight

roady walk

Traveller, there are no roads. Roads are made by walking.

- Spanish proverb

Chinese for a taste change ;-)

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

- Chinese Proverb

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In business, be competent. In action, watch the timing.

- Tao Te Ching

thanks to nupur roopa for sharing it

Democracy not equal to Conformocracy

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

- Abbie Hoffman

soldiers of change - time travellers in true sense

Anyone who fights for the Future lives in it today.

- Ayn Rand in "The Romantic Manifesto"
shared by pallavi on FB

liberal education

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

- Sydney J. Harris

ever realized this ;)

I don't wake up late. The world is in a hurry.

- patrick

There is nowhere we are more honest than the search box.

- Anonymous

From iskool to school - painting the natives

This civilization doesn't scream out its superiority, it lets it seep in and enter the bloodstream. It subtly lets the 'native' know that it has the power to help him deal with the present and the future through its sciences, its dress code, its architecture, its food. I call it the slow and steady colonization of the mind. And, in the forefront of the colonizing process was the language.

'Ammi, it's not iskool, the word is school.'

- Excerpted from Ammi: Letter To a Democratic Mother by Saeed Mirza

the real work, your dream

Sleeping is important. Sleeping is when I am actually doing something where as when awake I ain't doing what I want to do.

- peeyush chomal

spark is precious

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

- Robin Williams

Time to get hands dirty to make something neat

When there is a castle to be built, one needs to start collecting the sand.

- gmail status of ankit dangi

Commitment makes all the difference

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

- Mack R. Douglas

Healthy reminder

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Alice says, Lewis writes

"I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly: "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

see the lessons on loose amid losses

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

- Instructions for Life by Dalai Lama

Who You are?

You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet.
You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

-- Tyler Durdin ( Fight Club )
thanks to ankur for sharing it

vision matters

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

From Shashi, The Tharoor

Indians will not become any less Indian if, in Mahatma Gandhi's metaphor, we open the doors and windows of our country and let foreign winds blow through our house – because Indians are strong enough not to be blown off their feet by these winds.

- Shashi Tharoor as Distinguished Speaker in USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

- Abraham Lincoln

Peanuts fetch zoo

If you pay peanuts, you will only get monkeys.

- former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew

world of reality

Each one has own world of reality(WOR). Teacher fights to make learners to dive into teacher's WOR. But, great do it in reverse.

- Akshay kumar

two forked Wrong's path

We seek compromise when we are wrong. We seek justice when others are wrong.

- Pritish Nandy's friend

Ignorance

Religion and science have a common ancestor - Ignorance.

- A.C. Grayling

one of its kind separation

As I walk away from you, I wish to wipe away all the memories from your mind n heart. With that I will prevent tears from flowing or lips from laughing. There is nothing I will take with me. There is nothing I will (wish to) leave behind for you.

- peeyush

New World's Axiom

Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.

- annacoder tweeted it as an American axiom

be so firm that even the ground shouldn't matter

Stand so firmly that even when the world collapses, you don't lose your ground.

- peeyush chomal

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

- Matthew Prior
English diplomat & poet (1664 - 1721)

Proudest verbs

They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them!
- Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol

lawyer

a good lawyer can keep you out of jail, but no lawyer can get you into heaven.

- Prof. Patrick Winston's father

writing a will to the future

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

- Robert Francis Kennedy