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
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
Time to get hands dirty to make something neat
When there is a castle to be built, one needs to start collecting the sand.
- gmail status of ankit dangi
Commitment makes all the difference
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
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
thanks to ankur for sharing it
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.
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
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
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.
Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
- Matthew Prior
English diplomat & poet (1664 - 1721)
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
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
Thoughts are good, deeds better
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Organic Thrill
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge
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?
difference between the same
Getting things done is not the same as making things happen.
- gmail status of rahulu
try-angle
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
- gmail status of rahulu
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.
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.
- gmail status of ankit dangi
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.
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
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
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. :(
A very pertinent question
ask whether we are working for tomorrow's history or for tomorrow's future?
- gmail status of ankit dangi
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
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.
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.
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"
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
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
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
- gmail status of rohit gupta
- gmail status of rohit gupta
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.
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