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

Rehearsed Spontaneity

Spontaneity takes a awful lot of rehearsal.

- gmail status of chetan gangwar

Crisis of Chinese

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

- John F. Kennedy
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Un Overhelm yourself

1 2 3 . . . Get Started
Don't feel overwhelmed . . . just do one thing at a time.
- Rose Lindsey character
Movie - Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Earning a Difference Buck

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

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

Lets Celebrate

Happiness, small or big, must be celebrated.

- Rahul Gupta

Effort

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.

- gmail status of sawani bade

refined Mind, subtler Vulnerabilities

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Have faith

when you have faith, nothing to fear about

- gmail status of mithlesh

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

World in Thought

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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]

- Hobbes
Thanks to Jonathan Benett who prepared the modern English version

Education

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes
thanks to sawani for sharing it

Odds with Even

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

 Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can!!!

- gmail status of anuj

Not fitting! - Clothes or You?

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

True Yoga

Perform your duty equipoised ... abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.

Bhagavad Gita 2.47-48

Conway’s Law restated :)

In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on - This person must be fired.

a momentary perspective

Society cruelly defines life's milestones.
- rahul gupta

open your gift

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package.

- gmail status of rohan mandora

Stand or perish

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Desire

Either we do what we desire or we desire what we do.

- gmail status of rahul upakare

Future makes no announcements

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

True Christmas

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

La vérité universelle - une crédible, l'autre ne l'est pas crédible

If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a park bench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure.
- gmail status of ankit garg

Something on Tech side

We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error. The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation.

- E.W. Dijkstra
(thanks to venkat for sharing the quote)

A sentence for those in people business

They need to be the folks people want to talk to, not those people have to talk to.

Them And They, Us and We

And Floyd says:

"Us, and them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows its noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end its only round and round."

Punishing innocence invites turbulence

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Free but expensive counselor

Time is the wisest counselor.

- gmail status of rohan mandora

H stands for both Holiday and Hell

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Professor's words

Positive statements must be given Preference.

Don't look at my finger... Look at the big plane pointed by it...
(He's using it to describe - don't get fascinated by little things, but see the bigger picture)

- Prof. Ashok Amin in his class

Failure brings fame to the famed

Many people realize their hearts' desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.
- gmail status of ankit dangi

It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere. :)
- gmail status of pawan sabharwal

Great men get noticed when they fail, ordinary men when they succeed.
- gmail status of chintu



Two nice quotes of profound nature

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that
you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that
you are still paying for - in order to get to the job that
you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and
the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

- rahul upakare
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates


Teach to multiply

When one teaches, two learn.
 

How to get wealthy?

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.

Does M think?

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Darkness demands more focus

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle Onassis

cyclic working

Working is like riding a bicycle. If you fall off, you die.

blame game

आपस में लड़के टूट गईं डालियाँ तमाम नाकामियों का बोझ हवा के सर गया
- gmail status of ashutosh

share light, share flame

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
- gmail status of rahul upakare

Listen sound of mistakes, see path shown by obstacles

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
 

Count Contentment and not numbers

Contentment is the highest gain,
Good Company the highest course,
Enquiry the highest wisdom,
Peace the highest enjoyment.

use muscle of courage wisely

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
- Ruth Gordon
[...] begin [each new day] serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

world is a Mirror

A loving person lives in a loving world.
A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Everyone you meet is your mirror.
- gmail status of tarun bajaj

serve love to the less deserved

Love me when I least deserve it, because thats when i really need it...
- gmail status of santosh

Poor?

Poverty needs to be interpreted from a non-materialistic perspective too.
- Rahul Gupta

In Woodrow's woods of quote plants

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels.
The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.


Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and
when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy.
Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light.
You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day
before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Common Prejudiced Sense

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

God's curry is our life

In the sunshine and in the shadows, through the calm and the stormy days, when life is good and when it's hard, when things go well and when they fall apart, may I know deep within my spirit that God is still smiling, and all will be well.

Amen.
- orkut profile of Govind Kaushal

:)

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

What is Wrong?

If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
gmail status of pawan sabharwal

If everything is coming your way, everyone else is in the wrong lane.
gmail status of chetan gangwar

Move on

Don't cry because it happened; smile because it's over.
- gmail status of santosh (muttu)

Faraday's perspective

Faraday's theoretical and experimental work made the electric generator possible but he didn't pursue the practical applications of his discoveries. When Gladston saw Faraday's laboratory demonstrations, the story goes, he asked about their utility. Faraday replied, "Of what use is a baby?"

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Move out to change perspective

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
- Aldous Huxley

Heresy - Experiment with truth

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
 - H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

Pride is a personal commitment

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Run your own show

Having a role model in life is a great thing to have; one who provides us with direction and inspiration.
However, we will forever be restricted by that person's limitations if we live within their boundaries.
Be influenced, but set your own standards and develop your own principals, if you are ever to live beyond ...

- gmail status of ajay rahar

Free-dom

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.


A techie liner

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
- Edsger Dijkstra
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Inspired from Sir Djikstra, An attempt to write geeky two liner :)

Programmer: Hey Program! Why don't you just reset the variable in the corner
Program: Please don't bug me. Hey Tester! where have you been these days. See na, this ** programmer is bugging me.

I have a time machine :)

We all have our time machines.
Some take us back, they're called memories.
Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu

founder of Taoism,

author of "Tao Te Ching"

("The Book of the Way")

600 BC-531 BC


Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

- Albert Schweitzer

German medical Missionary

1952 Nobel Peace Prize

1875-1965

Puppets and Voters

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Change what you can, leave what you can't

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- gmail status of santosh (muthu)

principal constants

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
- Stephen Covey
aas keh rahi shvans se, dheeraj rakhna seekh
bin maange moti mile, maange mile na bheekh

Hope says to breath, keep patience
diamonds come when you don't ask for, constant begging doesn't fetch anything

"... janam bhogi nahi karamyogi ..."

"rajya raja aur rajkumar dono se bada hota hai"

hans karm aur gyan k do pankhon k sahare hi ud sakta hai
bole to theory and practical ka right mixture ;)

- mahabharat

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In great joy never make promises to anyone. And in great anger never answer anyone.
- gmail status

Question > 1000 * Statements

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

IT

ago it laid ago it would
ago it would die why not it should
when people don't care when they should
it also gives up saying "why I should"

Anais Nin - she thought differently

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

After death, all is mud

Once the game is over, King and Pawn go into the same box.
-  gmail status of ravi dalal

Questions - sign of a conscious intellect

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso

Their Cogitations

Distance does to relationships, what air does to fire ... the weak flame extinguishes & the strong one gets fiery!
- gmail status of abhishek agarwal

Expectation without Communication is bound to be a disaster.
- heard in IIT-Kanpur

a great idea asks for plurality

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

find and not seek

Je ne cherche pas. Je trouve.
I do not seek. I find.
- Pablo Picasso

Faith starts from oneself

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

ma foi

Faith, Discipline and devotion makes you worth for everything.

Mind on Fire

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
- Plutarch                           
  gmail status of pravin shinde

Check before Crack

Before taking down a fence, it may be a good idea to find out why it was put up.

- gmail status of sawani bade

:)

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

- gmail status of amol suroshe

On a lighter note :)

You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from the bear.

- gmail status of sandeep bansal

Toleration

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle

 - Helen Keller

Sun is democratic

The sun that melts the butter, also strengthens the clay.
- gmail status of ankit dangi

Rita Mae Brown

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Belief makes a difference

Magic of believing - It's not over until I win

- gmail status of peeyush chomal

Commitment

Birds that live in a lake will fly away when the lake dries up.
But the lotus in the same lake dies with the lake.
That's the commitment in a Relationship.

- gmail status of piyush sharan

Accomplishments involve risk elements

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

traveller must understand obstacle's language

musafir aagar thokar khaa kar na samjhe to kya
raaste ke pathar to apna farz nibhaate hain

- gmail status of udayan kumar

Success needs Fire

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

- Arnold H. Glasgow
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Second's love can mean lifetime

Love me for a second, and I will make that second last a lifetime.

- unknown
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For Todo list

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Direction of Effort

Its just that most of us spend too much time winning the wrong contests.

- gmail status of sachin anklekar
Sometimes, direction of effort is more important than victory.