Today…
The Life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. J.M. Barrie
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. . . . It is all your material. . . . Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.Somerset Maugham
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one persona real person you know, or an imagined person, and write to that one.John Steinbeck
If you want to succeed double your failure rate – Thomas J Watson, IBM
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows 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 know neither victory nor defeat.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT:From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not. M Kathleen Cassy
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan
To try or not to? If you don’t try you will fail 100% ; on the other hand if you try, you have a 50% chance of winning and 50% chance of failing…but the chocie is yours!
PB
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson(The eighteenth-century lexicographer and writer)
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Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing
Peter F. Drucker
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Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
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Famous Chinese Proverbs
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
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One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor (1879 – 1964)
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The most important thing in life is to show up
Adapted from the movie “Hardball”
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius
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Sometime Back…:-)
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
Margaret Thatcher
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01/06/09
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
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30/05/09
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx
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29/05/09
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
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28/05/09
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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27/05/09Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder (234 BC – 149 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
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26/05/09
Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?
Unknown
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25/05/09
Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
Samuel Johnson
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23/05/09
For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
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22/05/09
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Unknown
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21/05/09
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne GretzkyToday
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20/05/09
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
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19/05/09
There is no such thing as “fun for the whole family.”
Jerry Seinfeld
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18/05/09
Don’t reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can’t have two sets of manners, two social codes – one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
Lillian Eichler Watson
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17/05/09
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)
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16/05/09
Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more of expensive goods, house and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debts become unbearable. The unpaid debit will lead to bankrupsy of banks, which will have to be nationalised and state will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.
We cannot live for ourselves alone.
Karl Marx, 1867 (DAS KAPITAL)
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15/05/09
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
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14/05/09
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.
A. H. Weiler (1909 – 2002)________________________________________________________________________________
13/05/09
Three sentences for getting success:
- Know more than others.
- Work more than others.
- Expect less than others.
William Shakesphere
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12/05/09
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself…
Leo Tolstoy
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11/05/09
You can change personality, but you cannot change looks…
Anonymous Eligible Bachelor
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10/05/09
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
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09/05/09
We cannot live for ourselves alone.Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results
Herman Melville
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08/05/2009
The first sign of nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
Milo Bloom
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07/05/09
If you win you need not explain…But if you lose you should not be there to explain.
Adolf Hitler
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06/05/09
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby (1937)
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05/05/09
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
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04/05/09
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
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03/05/09
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
Woody Allen
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02/05/09
Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
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01/05/09
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650)
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30/04/09
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.
Confucius
When you have seen bad times even in good times…you don’t worry anymore when bad times come.
P&B
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29/04/09
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.
Fats Domino
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28/04/09
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams
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27/04/09
There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
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26/04/09
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding
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25/04/09
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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24/04/09
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
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23/04/09
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Bertrand Russell
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23-04-09
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Disclaimer: The above quotes are taken from different websites, mail forwards, different articles, hearsay and offcourse our own creation. If any person/entity feels any quote/s need to be removed from this list, kindly inform us.
Creative output of the collective consciousness is nil.
Abhishek A Modi