It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.
- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
minus and plus have "us" common
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, "Nothing happens to you, it happens for you". See the positive in negative events.
- Joel Osteen
What's your present today
"Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: 'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift…that is why it is called the present."
- Master Oogway,
From the movie KungFu Panda
Fight or Fly but not fear
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece"
Q&A
You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself.
way to perfect lives, knowledge and design
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
- William Gibson, Zero History
there are people who live their whole lives on the default settings never realizing you can customize
Funny take on plagiarism
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson
Bitter to Sweet
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain
Author, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
Trust the winds of change within you
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
caged by the masters you chose
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- Ayn Rand
time to share bless deposits
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
- John Calvin
tune in to a positive beat
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand
sense what others are insensitive to
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
- Mark Twain
go along before you change your way
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Lifie
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful life becomes.
be a package, not a baggage
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
Audience
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
The Overwhelm
"the overwhelm" is a function not so much of how many things [we] have to do but of how much time [we] spend thinking about how many things [we] have to do.
Work may not set us free, but it lends meaning to our days, and without it we'd be lost.
The new wealth is so highly concentrated that only a very few people have the wherewithal to stop and smell the roses, which have been flown in at great expense from Ecuador.
compulsive profit syndrome
The disproportionately compensated have a disproportionate motive to keep on working.
No time for free time
inequality has grown, that leisure is scarce, that even the rich complain of being overwhelmed. And yet so much of what we do, collectively and individually, suggests that we still believe more wealth is the answer. Reëxamining this belief would probably be a good idea—that is, if anyone had the time for it.
- No Time by Elizabeth Kolbert
compulsive consumption syndrome
a Swedish economist named Staffan B. Linder coined the phrase "the harried leisure class." Linder argued that as people became wealthier they would inevitably feel more squeezed, because they would feel compelled to consume more and more goods per unit of free time. Linder envisioned his harried protagonist "drinking Brazilian coffee" while "smoking a Dutch cigar, sipping a French cognac, reading The New York Times, listening to a Brandenburg Concerto and entertaining his Swedish wife."
- No Time by Elizabeth Kolbert
Load Zero to Head
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.
- Eckhart Tolle, author, "The New Earth"
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
- Carrie Latet
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Unsinkable soul
An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
- Goi Nasu
Happy Birthday sunosuno
I just realized that this blog has lived for a decade now.
I have been a fan of motivational quotes since school days... used to collect lots of small inspiring literary stuff in a personal diary.
suno suno in hindi is a phrase spoken aloud to attract your audience to hear the message you want to deliver.
I try my best to mention the source/author of the quote.
If there is any unclaimed quote, I would be more than happy to attribute it to its progenitor.
cowsay fun :)
Nothing so needs change as other people's habits.
The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
- Mark Twain
Google, Orwell's new Big Brother
Google knows more about every digital active citizen than George Orwell dared 1984 ever imagine in his wildest visions.
Mathias Döpfner,
CEO, Axel Springer
(German media empire)
Tiny Sparks can cause major fire
It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Live or Dead, Full or Flat, Pain or Gain
Are we - and all living beings - just survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes, as Richard Dawkins states? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?
- gmail status of sachin anklekar
World is flat because the cunning people have punctured it.
- Rahul Gupta
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts for ever.
- Lance Armstrong, 5 time Winner of Tour De France
gmail status of Pravin Shinde
Time is a great teacher; what an year teaches you days didn't know.
- A dialogue from "Shadows in the Sun"
gmail status of Pravin Shinde
Time is a great teacher; what an year teaches you days didn't know.
- A dialogue from "Shadows in the Sun"
Need of the Hour
It may or may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done.
- Unknown (picked up from cowsay)
Truth lessens the load on working memory
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Quack Quack
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain
Spirit - The toughest metal
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
- Bernard Williams
(gmail status of sawani)
Don't let worries worry you
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie ten Boom
Its Life! not a balance machine
"There is no such thing as work/life balance—there is only life. You don't have to be the last one at the office every night, and you don't have to change every diaper. Make the choices you believe in your heart are right, and make no apologies." - Mary Ann Byrnes
Manimal
We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals and we must respect our fellow animals.
The Auto Audience
Writing used to be more about style and personality than structure.
Now, addressing an audience of robots, spiders, applets, servers, and content management applications, as well, as, oh yes, people, we are more constrained by the need to follow a standard model with absolute consistency, for fear of confusing the software. Humans can handle inconsistency, but programs cannot. Meet your new reader: a few lines of code.
Feel them but not let them fool you
Terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken—only felt and endured.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
Wake up, Waters await! Swim to them, shores wait!
Slumber can make you a perfect blind man when opportunities are so close. Laziness can make you think the right opportunity has not come yet. But action will make you realize that, the least opportunity can shower you with many blessings. Wake up from your slumber because opportunities are all around you. Be active, leave the laziness behind and grab the opportunities.
Written in 2013 by Albert Douglas Quayson --- Ghana
While swimming, the depths don't matter. Remember, keep swimming, the shore will come to you."
Written in 2013 by Joyal Mehta --- India
oh god i feel lucky
whenever you meet good people, you feel the presence of some power helping you being lucky.
whenever you meet not-so-good people, you feel the presence of some power testing your strength in unlucky times.
- me
The curious case of a Bicycle
Bicycle is a curious vehicle, its passenger is its engine.
- John Howard
Perfection, Fear and Story of life
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger.
Follow Passion, Delay Judgement
Have a passion for Doing something rather than Being a title on a business card.
- Steve Blank (Facebooked by Ankit Jain)
Delay your judgements as long as possible.
- a wise friend from NCST (Facebooked by Apoorv Sharma)
satyam shbivam sundaram
batane se baat hi parayi hoti hai
paraye apne nahi hotey
- satyam shbivam sundaram, movie
Bad Silence
The worst thing that one can do is not to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – and never knowing.
- David Viscott
Apre un long temps
When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.
- Michael Hyatt
Apo logy
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 piyush sharan
Apology - Its not about stepping back, its about coming forward and accepting it.
- Rahul
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; Perfection is God's business.
-
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
~ J. Brotherton
Un known
Happiness keeps you Sweet,
Trials keep you Strong,
Sorrows keep you Human,
Failures keep you humble ,
Success keeps You Glowing,
but Only God keeps You Going!
Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, write on walls, and get poked by people you don't know.
Blame the Origins
Accursed be he that first invented war.
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Accused be the society who made me.
- Attitude of non-regretting accused
Quote Clamour
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of slience.
Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a friend.
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; He who loves finds the gate open.
The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.
The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I, Me, Thy
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love
तस्कीन-ऐ-मुहब्बत के बस दो ही तरीके हैं, ये दिल न बना होता या तुम न बने होते.. ये दिल न बना होता या तुम न बने होते .
- sanjay's gmail status
Air Insane
Insanity is in the air or how else do we breathe.
- Co-authors Rohit Agrawalla,Kushlendra Mishra
Last Benchers
First bench students are intelligent until last bench students don't participate in the'Competition'
- A. P. J. Kalam
Kipling's Fears
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Mishranomics
IIT is the place to keep the best minds sedated.
After certain age, you are set free to build your own landmine. Pursue your dreams, don't evaluate.
- Mishraji
Hungry Quote
Hunger makes you search for possibility, inspiration reinforces hope in possibility, motivation pushes despite hope but action is the only one that converts the possibility. They all deserve to be credited but if we still want to medal them out, hunger and action certainly deserve to stand on dais.
- Me
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.
Mark, his words
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.
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.
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
- 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.
ki ab gareeb ki chatt tapakti hai
Mausam ameero ki liye badalta hoga
gareeb ke liye dikkatt badalti hai.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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