The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
da Vinci's spell
They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
- Mark Twain
For the wise and the stupids
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Management
Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you'll be stuck with whoever's left.
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
Victor's way
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Those who live are those who fight.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
- Victor Hugo
After debt comes dignity
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Music to the ears!
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Real Prayer
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Dr. Charles
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Ford for mind
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Simplified Wisdom
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
Literate is not enough!
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Tactile bOOks
"... books are highly tactile objects and cannot be sold on the internet alone. The art of browsing and the serendipity of finding unconnected books are hard to emulate in the virtual world. The number of people who come in to find books, then to compare prices on their smartphones, while the slightly sensitive ones merely photograph the book and then order from home, only goes to validate my point."
- Ajit Vikram Singh, owner of Fact & Fiction bookstore, New Delhi
Battle's a mind game
All battles are won by mind for minds.
- me after reading "Jacques Mattheij" blog
Youth's Mark
The heart is the real Fountain of Youth. While that remains young the Waterbury of Time must stand still.
- Notebook, 1898
Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life.
- The Innocents Abroad
One of the very advantages of youth - you don't own any stock in anything. You have a good time, and all the grief and trouble is with the other fellows.
- Speech, 3 October 1895
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Notebook, 1898
Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life.
- The Innocents Abroad
One of the very advantages of youth - you don't own any stock in anything. You have a good time, and all the grief and trouble is with the other fellows.
- Speech, 3 October 1895
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Collection of Mark Twain Quotes
One at a time!
There are snakes that go months without eating and then they catch something, but they're so hungry that they suffocate while they're eating. One opportunity at a time!
- Donald Draper
Right Track is for Running
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
bullshit is 10x tougher to clean than generate
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
- Paul Kedrosky
Victory and Defeat comes only to the Doers
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
pinch of narcissism
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
Prey is as fast as slow is the predator
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
judge yourself
Judging people doesn't define who they are. It defines who you are.
- unknown
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Mono, the sinner
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
- Edith Wharton(1862-1937)
Karma
Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.
a difference perspective helps achieve the seemingly impossible
We appreciate yesterday, but we're looking for a better tomorrow.
Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.
If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you.
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
Insane numbers
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
mundi nihil debes
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
Papert's mind
Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows.
Make a good habit, relieve the brain
Decision-making is draining and it's difficult, so if we avoid decision-making then we don't have to use our self-control. Are you going to the gym? Yes, you are. Are you going to go to sleep at 11 p.m.? Yes, you are. If you put it on autopilot, then you don't have to drain yourself trying to make decisions, which can drive you crazy.
Book Interview
Joan's the bird behind the quote :)
A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer, he sings because it has a song.
(and NOT Maya Angelou)
Truth is a stranger, have you have met one?
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Truth is stranger than fiction--to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Truth is stranger than fiction--to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Virtual Reality :)
I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on, so I woke up from sheer boredom.
- Unknown/ Michael Hansbury
Author, The Law of Attraction
100 dollars of Age for 1 piece of maturity
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Nothing but the best
So so is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so.
- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
Be aware of your Fears
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Fear can be a powerful ally, instead of just an obstacle to overcome. It has the power to focus you on what's important, prepare for upcoming challenges and be cautious in unknown situations. Yes, it can be harmful, just as pain can be chronic, but that doesn't mean I would like to eliminate pain while my hand is in the fire.
Fear the Right Things! Too much energy is wasted being afraid of the wrong things.
All of our fears have both a degree of truth and a degree of ridiculousness.
Inside out solution
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Imagination pays, humor works
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
a complimentary quote
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
free the freedom, don't be nervous
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
John, Irving John!
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
- John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
- John Irving, The Cider House Rules
Imagining something is better than remembering something.
- John Irving, The World According to Garp
- John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.
- John Irving, The Cider House Rules
Imagining something is better than remembering something.
- John Irving, The World According to Garp
Difficulties and Solutions matter, excuses and slogans don't
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.
be a doer not a todo machine - rahul
"To be or not to be." - Shakespeare
"To be is to do" - Socrates
"To do is to be" - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Do be do be do" - Frank Sinatra
"To do is to be" - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Do be do be do" - Frank Sinatra
Differences makes all the difference
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.
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