Cogitation

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.

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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

statistics

Good people are like Outliers - away from the mean.

Valentine Day

Valentine Day - Even the calendar has a date with Love!

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

- G K Chesterton

Thoughts are good, deeds better

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

- Malcolm S. Forbes

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

- Albert Einstein

Organic Thrill

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge

- William James

slow is still a pace

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

- Chinese Proverb

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?

- Shantideva

Everything in life is attitude.

- gmail status of rahulu

said by Chuck Swindoll

difference between the same

Getting things done is not the same as making things happen.

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try-angle

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

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TT play in life

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

- Wilson Mizner
Playwright and writer

Your definition

Hard Work defines You.

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success sum

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

- Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Quotable people's quote :)

Don't compare man, you will die, find your own niche.

- ishu bhatia

The true luxury is in your relations...

- kavitham

sky my roof, earth my floor

No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

- Michael O'Muircheartaigh

ना रख अपने आप को, तू इस तरह संभाल कर, एक चादर को ओढ़, अपने कंधे पर डाल कर, समुंदरी शीत लहरों का प्रभाव, तुझसे कभी न रुकेगा, कुदरत की कहर के आगे, तू भी मिटटी में मिल जाएगा.

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everything is crack+

There is a Crack, a Crack in Everything / That's How the Light Gets In.

- Leonard Cohen

The right Qs

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

- Howard Thurmon

Pain is temporary. Pride is forever.

- Anon

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

- Richard L. Evans

Middle path towards better environment

... the problem can be very easily solved by everyone giving up N things. But very few people in the free world would be willing to do that. So we'll have to rely on most people giving up 1 or 2 things out of their own list of N things. For me, I didn't give up living in suburbs. But I
- wear a jacket at home in winter instead of turning on the heat
- use a fan in summer instead of AC
- line-dry my laundary in the backyard instead of using the gas dryer
- skip the plastic or paper bags when grocery-shopping
- gave up my SUV and got a Prius
- and literally dig through the household trash to find recyclable and compostable items that my wife and in-laws fail to separate out.

--- OP on berkeley's MOTD

itchguard ;)

Got an itch? sit on it!

- shireen gaurav

As Putt puts it

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

- Putt's Law

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

- Louisa May Alcott
1832–88, American author

PS - Not able to come up with a title for last few weeks for the quotes I like. Mind seems to have got shot at point Blank range. :(

We are the people our parents warned us about.

- Jimmy Buffet
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

- Disraeli

We've got to hold on ready or not. You live for the fight when it's all that you've got.

- Bon Jovi

A very pertinent question

ask whether we are working for tomorrow's history or for tomorrow's future?

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Life, the LIVE movie

♫ The world is a stage and forget about the script, they didn't even let me rehearse once...

- gmail status of tarun bajaj

Act like a fellow warrior

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Plato

- gmail status of nandini

Life and Death

Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.

-- Elbert Hubbard

It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.

-- Anaxandrides

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask "Compared to what?"

-- Sydney Harri

People! :)

When I say "I talk to God", people accept it as a prayer- When I say God talked to me, suddenly I am a schizophrenic.

- gmail status of tarun

forget is an inverse function of itself :)

The more I try to forget you, the more I forget to forget you.

- gmail status of paras kapoor

साधना के देश में मत नाम ले विश्राम का !

- Source: Geetganga

Man, The Seeker

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs,alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

- Jean Cocteau

Best Dussehra Wish

May we better our gods and not use their failures as an excuse to repeat the same in ours. Amen.

- Peeyush

May God bless us in this manner

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate,
to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.

- William Arthur Ward

True learning from True Problems

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that didn't work out. That's when I've really learned.

- Carol Burnett

Worth of a difference?

... no difference or division is worth destroying all that we have built and all that we love.

- Barack Obama

Moment Addition

Live the moment, at times, they add to your memories.

- Ankit Dangi

Life's length

Life's too short and life's too long,
to be somewhere you don't belong.

- quote from an online pal

All about BOXing!

All Companies want to hire best out-of-the-box thinkers to help them box their customers into their products.

- said Rahul Gupta :)
Inspired by "Thank you for Smoking"

Dream On!

Live for a dream, Fight for a dream, Die For a Dream... Arise!!!

- gmail status of sourav dutta

Disturbed View

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

- Epictetus

Baby Morning

Do not say: ''It is morning,'' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Efficiency can be an Efficient Threat

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

- Eugene McCarthy

Truth?

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

- Pablo Picasso

Destiny of Red River

Rivers of Blood never find an Ocean. :-/

- Translation of a song line from Kaminey

human parameter in the inhuman equations

The concern for man and his destiny must be the chief interest of all
technical efforts. Never forget this among your equations and diagrams.

- Albert Einstein

A point of view

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

- John D. Rockefeller III
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Apology - Ego's free fall

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 amol

Amusing :)

I might think about it a little bit and if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else, but I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious Universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.

- Richard Feynman

HI - Sometimes it's a hard world for small things.

Ed McDonnough: You mean you busted out of jail.
Evelle: No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
Gale: What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.

- Movie: Raising Arizona

PS - Don't know where to put dialogues. After all, aren't they quotes phrased in a palatable manner.

Turn for your turn to Challenge

There are challenges all around you. Just keep turning.

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Perform Addition on the set of lives around you :)

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

- William Osler

Don't waste your Want

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

- Kurt Cobain

Life isn't all about taking your generation to the next level.

- Naveen Kumar

Image doesn't reflect well at times

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

- Marcel Proust

Endurance is the Path

May we discover through pain and torment, the strength to live with grace and humour.
May we discover through doubt and anguish, the strength to live with dignity and holiness.
May we discover through suffering and fear, the strength to move towards healing.
May it come to pass that we be restored to health and to vigour.
May Life grant us wellness of body, spirit, and mind.
And if this cannot be so, may we find in this transformation and passage
moments of meaning, opportunities for love
and the deep and gracious calm that comes
when we allow ourselves to move on.

- Rabbi Rami M Shapiro
Sacred Space, Times of India

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