Hope is that little voice you hear, which keeps you walking and tries to whisper, 'Maybe' at a time when the entire world has accepted defeat on behalf of you.
- Bibhu Dutta Rout, Founder, Storymirror.com, Author, Wheels of Wish
Century of learning
In this century, it won't be about what you learnt in school or college, but what you learnt later in life. Just because you graduated and threw that cap up, that does not mean that's the last time you ever learned anything.
- Ronnie Screwvala, Moneycontrol interview
Beware of shepherds too
The sheep will spend its entire lifetime fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd.
- African proverb
Intervention breeds intervention
One of the downsides of intervention is it breeds more intervention.
- Raghuram Rajan, ex-RBI governor
Failure to learn from failures is a bigger failure
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
- William Saroyan
Failure to learn from failures is a bigger failure.
- Rahul Gupta
Belief powers enthusiasm
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
- Hannah Senesh
The Impossible Disguise of Opportunity
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Expect no Expectations
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
economic indicators lag stock market
while the traditional economic indicators come with an information lag, stock market participants are constantly gauging the present, and what the future could hold for businesses, livelihoods, and recovery
- Nithin, The Ken
Harvest matters but so do seeds
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Stevenson
Habit is the beginning of an end
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
- Julio Cortázar
Survival Instincts Inc
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!
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