Wisdom From The Wise...

Top 10 Funny Email Addresses

2009-04-22T00:25:00.002+05:30

There are some email addresses which you may rather not have. These are the addresses which would even make you think of having a different name if you had one of these!!

10. Hellen Thomas Eatons (Duke University) - eatonsht@dku.edu

9. Martha Elizibeth Cummins (Fresno University) - cumminme@fu.edu

8. George David Blowmer (Drop Front Drawers & Cabinets Inc.) - blowmegd@dropdrawers.com

7. Mary Ellen Dickinson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - dickinme@iup.edu

6. Francis Kevin Kissinger (Las Verdes University) - kissinfk@lvu.edu

5. Barbara Joan Beeranger (Myplace Home Decorating) - beeranbj@myplace.com

4. Amanda Sue Pickering (Purdue University) - aspicker@pu.edu

3. Ida Beatrice Ballinger (Ball State University) - ibballin@bsu.edu

2. Bradley Thomas Kissering (Brady Electrical, Northern Division, Overton Canada) - btkisser@bendover.com

1. Isabelle Haydon Adcock (Toys "R" Us) - ihadcock@tru.com

Trees forced to grow as we want

2009-01-17T13:09:00.004+05:30

Similarity between Sachin Tendulkar and Sonia Gandhi

2008-12-15T11:11:00.002+05:30

I dont know why but today while watching Sachin bat against England and just surfing channels and seeing Sonia Gandhi on one made a strange thought light up in my otherwise rusty brain.

I cant help but compare how similar these two famous personalities are! Here are the similarities that I have found.

Both of them are accomplished players in their own games. :P

Sachin denied captaincy when offered and similarly Sonia Gandhi also denied being the prime minister after Congress won the election.

Sachin may not be the captain but often he is seen on field advising the captain may it be Dhoni, Dravid or even earlier Ganguly. Likewise, Sonia Gandhi is the one who "controls" our prime minister SMS(Sardar Manmohan Singh). :P

Sachin Tendulkar holds an immovable place in the Indian Cricket Team and he cant be left out of the team no matter how bad he performs. Similarly, Sonia Gandhi holds an irreplaceable position on the scenario of Indian Politics.

What Part Do We Play In This World????

2008-07-11T11:33:00.003+05:30

Have you ever wondered what role do we play in this world??

What profession do you think resembles our journey through life the most??

I found out the answer to mine yesterday night while on a walk at night with my parents. I dont know why it struck me at that moment but it sure did strike well.

We are nothing but the runners in a relay race in which we pick up something from the state that it is left to us and try our best to improve upon it so that others will find it in a better state than what was left to us.

Being an engineer, i can say that what engineers do is similar to what runners do in a relay race. They pick up an existing technology to work on and improve it to the best they can and leave it onto the forthcoming generations to make further improvements. Technology is the baton that engineers pass to each other.

And i guess, this is the role that all of us play in each of our professions and in our lives also.

The Blame Game

2008-05-24T12:33:00.000+05:30

Often you will find people in this world who are eager to put the blame of their failure on others. Often are these people wrong in doing so. The language of victimization is the true victimizer. A great crippler of spirits it is.
No one governs your destiny but you. The ultimate quality of your life is determined by the choice that you make: to play the victim or the victor.
By blaming others for our circumstances we subscribe to the philosophy that we are mere organisms acted upon by social and economic forces than an agent with a free will. It is like denying the very quality that separates us from animals. No one succeeded by blaming his parents, his race, his bad luck or quirks of fate. Everyone has it within us to stand up, take responsibility for our life and say, “This I am today; that I will be tomorrow. “

The Two Kinds Of Pain In Life

2008-05-07T16:34:00.002+05:30

There are two kind of pains in life. The pain of hard work and the pain of regret. The pain of hard work is always more desirable than the pain of regret. It is never easy to transform ourselves. The best thing to do is often the toughest thing to do. We have to make tremendous effort on our side to become the person that we ought to be. Pebbles on the road do not have the value of diamonds because it takes much effort to mine and shape diamonds. The real value of diamonds comes only from the fact that they are rarer than the pebbles on road because they have undergone so much effort to become what they are. So better take the pain to become diamonds than to take the hard fact of being labeled as a pebble by the world.

Difference between feeling and thinking...

2008-05-05T20:16:00.003+05:30

What you feel and what you think is not the same. You may FEEL that what a person is saying is wrong but you may THINK that if you tell him what you FEEL, you may hurt his feelings. Feelings are the most unaltered form of human expression while thinking is altered by the rules that culture has imposed on us. So we clot our feeling with defensiveness and convert it into thinking and believe that what we think is what we feel. But we need to remember that even our own self will not appreciate us if we do not express our point of view. So its better if we communicate our feelings and views to the other person because only then can they be resolved and only then can we address issues and can come closer to ourselves.

Today's Wisdom...

2008-04-27T12:23:00.000+05:30

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-Oscar Wilde.

However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.
-R W Emerson.

Today's Wisdom

2008-04-20T12:40:00.002+05:30

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E M Forster.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
-Nan Fairbrother.

More of Albert Einstein..

2008-04-15T09:45:00.000+05:30

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

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

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926

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.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio.

Albert Einstein's Views

2008-04-15T09:40:00.000+05:30

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Some More Wisdom...

2008-03-22T21:28:00.002+05:30

Getting up early is a gift you give to yourself. Few disciplines have the power to transform your life as does the habit of early rising. There is something very special about the first few hours of the morning. Time seems to slow down and a deep sense of peace fills the air. Joining the "Five O'Clock Club" will allow you to start controlling your day rather than letting the day control you. Winning the "Battle of the Bed" and putting "Mind over Mattress" by rising early will provide you with at least one quiet hour for yourself during the most crucial part of the day: the beginning. If spent wisely, the rest of your day will unfold in a wonderful way.

To cultivate the habit of getting up earlier, the first thing to remember is that it is the quality of sleep that matters the most rather than the quantity of sleep.It is better to have 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep than having 10 hours of broken sleep.

Our character is shaped not through life's easiest experiences, but during life's toughest ones.It is during life's most trying times that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength that lies between us.

Live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that is not life.

To live your life to the fullest, start taking more risks and doing the things that you fear. Get good at becoming uncomfortable and stop taking the path of least resistance. Sure, there is a greater chance that you will stub your toes when you walk the road less traveled, but that is the only way you can reach to the top.

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time."
-Andre Gide.

The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.Sure, you will meet with your share of failures if you start living more deliberately and passionately. But failure is nothing more than learning how to win. Its risky out on a limb but thats where all the fruit is.

Deeply fulfilled and highly actualized people simply make wiser choices than others. You can choose to spend the rest of your days sitting on the shore of life in complete safety or you can take some chances, dive deep into the water and discover the pearls that lie waiting for the person of true courage.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doers 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 in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at 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.

The real secret of getting things done is knowing what things need to be left undone.

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
-Peter Drucker.

Discover Your Destiny- Robin Sharma.

2008-03-22T21:18:00.000+05:30

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life, life will not listen to your logic, it does not bother about your logic.
-Osho.

In our darkest times, we are willing to go the deepest. Adversity tends to make us more philosophical.

Living life without a devotion to excellence dishonours the priceless gifts and talents that have been given to you.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-Goerge Bernard Shaw.

Some more Quotes...

2008-03-17T15:03:00.003+05:30

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
-Sven Goran Eriksson.

Jealousy always sees things through a magnifying glass that makes little things large.
-Cervantes.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people think you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot.

Incidents should not govern policy but policy should govern incidents.
-Napoleon Bonaparte.

The measure of love is to love without measure.
-St. Augustine.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-H.L. Mencken.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
-Albert Einstein.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which all the difficulties disappear.
-John Adams.

All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone.
-Greg Arnold.

Its easy to make money but difficult to make a difference.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.
-Jim Rohn.

A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
-Confucius.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
-Voltaire.

Better a little with the fear of LORD than great wealth with turmoil.
-Bible.

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
-Bible.

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
-James Truslow.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
-Goethe.

Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius.

Kishore Biyani of Pantaloon Retail Speaks

2008-03-15T21:28:00.000+05:30

I have never understood people who spend a few lakhs on a pen or a watch. None of my businesses will ever cater to them.

When one is young and tries to rewrite rules, he is called "mad". But when he is finally successful, because he dared to risk it, he is called a "maverick".

I dont think any business plan can die just because of lack of funds. If one has a solid proposition and is willing to put all his effort into making it successful, he can find people willing to help him out. However, if funding is given primary importance, one will get stuck. Making finance the starting point of a decision making process stops businesses from taking many initiatives and ultimately slows down growth.

I believe my strength lies in understanding the needs and aspirations of the Indian customer. The Indian customer both challenges and intrigues me and as an organisation we still do not completely understand each section of our population. Our focus has been and will continue to be on watching, evaluating and capitalising the domestic consumption space. It is such a vast and diverse market by itself that there seems no apparent need to venture outside in the next couple of decades.

India historically has been a savings-led country. Not only are we very value conscious, nothing in our country is ever wasted or thrown away. Women in India are trained from their childhood to preserve everything. This holds true for apparels as well. The average Indian wears the same shirt or trouser for years, well after its colors have faded or the buttons have come off. In every Indian city there are women who trade new utensils for old clothes that are then sold in a second hand market. Many middle class housewives eagerly participate in this barter.

Wise and Otherwise-Sudha Murty

2008-03-06T11:40:00.000+05:30

Many of us try to do what is lawful and proper-only to realize that our system is not made for such behavior.

“Vision without action is merely a dream, action without vision is merely passing time; but action and vision together can change the world”- JJ Irani, former TISCO chairman.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.-Abraham Lincoln.

Henry Ford
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

Given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as anyone can handle.

Who will cry when you die?-Robin Sharma

2008-03-06T11:37:00.000+05:30

If you spend your life focusing on only the worthiest pursuits, it is certain to end in complete joy.

Accept complete responsibility to the way things are and resolve to work on changing yourself before seeking to change others.

You change your life the second you make a decision from the depths of your heart to be a better, more dedicated human being.

If you are not pursuing your dreams, you are fulfilling your limitations.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind.

Five Point Someone-Chetan Bhagat.

2008-03-06T01:45:00.000+05:30

No book has been able to capture my attention as this... A must read for everyone... First timer Chetan Bhagat strikes a chord with his story about 3 friends studying in IIT-Delhi and their struggle to maintain balance with studies and fun... A literal page turner... Wont allow you to stop reading unless you make a brave effort... Finished it in 9 hrs flat..!!!!

Tuesdays With Morrie-Mitch Albom

2008-03-06T01:39:00.000+05:30

This is a book i suggest you to read not because it brings you closer to the reality of death but because it draws the reader in and takes him to a journey of a life time to the slow death caused by ALS(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis).

A captivating story of a young man who discovers his favourite proffesor in college after 16 years of graduation only to know that the professor is dying day by day at the hands of ALS. The student visits his professor on every tuesday in the last days of his life to learn about life,family, death etc.

The Greatness Guide- Robin Sharma.

2008-02-02T19:24:00.000+05:30

Your days are your life in miniature.

"A mind once stretched by a new idea can never return to its original dimensions."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Knowing how to do something and not doing it is same as not knowing how to do it.

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed with the things you didnt do than by the things you did."
-Mark Twain.

You cant win a game you dont even play.

Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals. The only thing thats rocket science is rocket science.

Before someone will lend you a hand, you need to touch their heart.

The things that get scheduled are the things that get done.

Every time you say yes to something thats unimportant, you are saying "no" to something thats important.

Know what needs to get done in the coming days, weeks, months and years for you to feel that you played the best game as a human being.

We see the world not as it is but as we are.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, but the second best time is today."
-Chinese Proverb.

"If you have not discovered something to die for, you are not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"What are you doing speaks so loudly that i cant hear what you are saying."

There can be no authentic success and lasting happiness if your daily schedule is misaligned with your deepest values. Ensure your daily actions are aligned with your deepest values.

"After climbing a hill, one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance i have come. But i can rest only for a moment, for freedom comes with responsibilities, and i dire not linger, for my long walk has not yet ended."
-Nelson Mandela.

Walk towards your fears to defeat them.

This world has been built by people who were not happy with the way it was and knew they could do better.

"The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret."
-Nido Qubein.

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."
-Samuel Ullman.

The smallest of actions is always better than noblest of intentions.

The paradox of our wired world is that as we become more connected electronically, we become less connected emotionally.

Business is about loving the people who do business with you and giving them more value than they have any right to expect.

"If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
-Anita Roddick (Founder, The Body Shop).

Behind every wall of fear, there lies a precious treasure.

Inside every problem lies a precious opportunity to improve things.

A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice.

Commit to being breathtakingly great in whatever you do.

Why wait to get old to become experienced?

"I am not a businessman. I am a business, man."
-Jay-Z.

"There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead."
-Benjamin Franklin.

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is completed:If you are alive, it isnt."
-Richard Bach.

To earn more you must learn more.

"The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to realize their dreams."
-Jack Welch.

There is no point in being busy if you are busy doing the wrong things.

"What dent will you make today?"
-Steve Jobs.

Few success practices are as important as articulating your most closely held goals and then reviewing them daily.

The real value of reaching a goal lies not in the result achieved but in what the journey you have walked to get the goal has made of you as a person.

"If everyone was satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes."
-Mark Twain.

Do good and leave behind a virtue that the storm of time can never destroy.

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.

"My tastes are simple-I just want the best."

The people who have the most time for fun are those who know how to plan and then use their time well.

You will get to the end of your life anyway- Why not reach that place as an extraordinary human being?

At the end of our lives few if us regret having made more money.

The company that plays together stays together.

People love doing business with people who love doing business.

If people dont laugh at you and your ideas once a week, you are not pushing the envelope.

Leadership begins within. Organizational leadership begins with personal leadership.

Enjoy life while you chase success.

Greatness comes by beginning something that does not end with you.

Its never too late to become the person you have always dreamed of becoming.

The best thing to do is often the hardest thing to do.

"Progress is often the difference between mind and mindset."
-Narayana Murthy.

Noone ever won a war by dieing for his country but he won it by making the other person die for his country.

"Dont be prisoners of past successes. Build and move on."
-Jagdish Khattar.

"I Dare"- Kiran Bedi

2008-02-02T19:20:00.001+05:30

"For standing for truth there will be a price, just as for telling lies there will be penalties; hence choose which one you want to pay."
-Kiran Bedi.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathicharged by time.

Change is the law. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Business @ The Speed Of Thought-Bill Gates.

2008-02-02T19:07:00.001+05:30

You have to be able to make risky assumptions to undertake a new venture.

In 3 years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

One day an eager upstart will put Microsoft out of business.

If you decline to take risks early, you will decline in the market later. If you bet big, though, only a few of those risks have to succeed to provide for your future.

If you dont believe that all the employees have the potential to contribute to your company's success, all the technology in the world wont empower them. Once you assume that every employee should be a knowledge worker, technology will help every employee to put his full abilities to work on company's behalf.

"The prediction i can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing inventions will be those that we are today not wise enough to foresee."
-Carl Sagan (Astronomer).

The importance of cultivating good habits...

2008-01-21T13:06:00.000+05:30

The quality of your life will be determined in a large measure by the nature of your habits.

"We first make our habits then our habits make us."
-John Dryden.

"The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
-Virginia Woolf.

So ensure that you habits move you forward rather than hold you back.

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."
-Publilius Cyrus.

The importance of setting goals..

2008-01-21T12:50:00.001+05:30

Are you using the best within you to its fullest capacity? If not, you are not only doing yourself a disservice, you are doing the world, and all those within it who could benefit from your talents, a disservice.

Goals clarify our desires and, in doing so, help us to focus on only those activities that will lead us to what we want. Setting clearly defined goals provides you with a framework for smarter choices.

Goal setting helps you to stay alert to opportunities.

Setting clearly defined goals commits you to a course of action. They give you the inspiration to act on your priorities and make things happen in your life rather than waiting for opportunities to land in your lap (which rarely happens).

Selecting goals that engage and motivate you is one of the best ways to boost the level of your personal commitment to life and increase the energy you bring to your days. So set big goals.You are only as rich, whether materially or spiritually, as your dreams.

Quotes...

2008-01-21T12:35:00.000+05:30

"Anyone can become angry-that's easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, in the right way, at the right time and for the right purpose- that is not easy."
-Aristotle.

"Its a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
-Somerset Maugham.

"The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us when we live."
-Norman Cousins.

"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."
-Ashley Montagu.

"Despite all the difficulties, all the frustrations, there is a joy in having done something as good as you could and better than others thought you could."

-J.R.D. Tata

About The Importance Of Action...

2008-01-21T12:27:00.001+05:30

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."
-David Starr Jordan.

All too often,we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not by waiting. The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the reward but in the person you become as a result of achieving your goals.

Rather than savoring only the rewards that have flowed from the achievement of that goal, celebrate the fact that the process of reaching your goal has improved the person you are.

Who Will Cry When You Die?-Robin Sharma.

2008-01-21T12:13:00.000+05:30

The things that are easy to do are also the things that are easy not to do.

"So long as you live, keep learning how to live."
-Roman philosopher Seneca.

How high you will rise in life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.The greatest leaders in this new economy will be the greatest thinkers.The person you will be 5 years from now will come down to two primary influences: the people you associate with and the books you read.

The irony of being more compassionate is that the very act of giving makes you feel better as well.

Who Will Cry When You Die? -Robin Sharma

2008-01-19T16:27:00.000+05:30

Getting up early is a gift you give to yourself. Few disciplines have the power to transform your life as does the habit of early rising. There is something very special about the first few hours of the morning. Time seems to slow down and a deep sense of peace fills the air. Joining the "Five O'clock Club" will allow you to start controlling your day rather than letting the day control you. Winning the "Battle of the Bed" and putting "Mind over Mattress" by rising early will provide you with at least one quiet hour for yourself during the most crucial part of the day: the beginning. If spent wisely, the rest of your day will unfold in a wonderful way.

To cultivate the habit of getting up earlier, the first thing to remember is that it is the quality of sleep that matters the most rather than the quantity of sleep.It is better to have 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep than having 10 hours of broken sleep.

Our character is shaped not through life's easiest experiences, but during life's toughest ones.It is during life's most trying times that we discover who we really are and the fullness of the strength that lies between us.

LIVE deep and suck out all the marrow of life, live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that is not life.

To live your life to the fullest, start taking more risks and doing the things that you fear. Get good at becoming uncomfortable and stop taking the path of least resistance. Sure, there is a greater chance that you will stub your toes when you walk the road less traveled, but that is the only way you can reach to the top.

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time."
-Andre Gide.

The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.Sure, you will meet with your share of failures if you start living more deliberately and passionately. But failure is nothing more than learning how to win. Its risky out on a limb but that's where all the fruit is.

Deeply fulfilled and highly actualized people simply make wiser choices than others. You can choose to spend the rest of your days sitting on the shore of life in complete safety or you can take some chances, dive deep into the water and discover the pearls that lie waiting for the person of true courage.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doers 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 in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at 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.

The real secret of getting things done is knowing what things need to be left undone.

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
-Peter Drucker.

Who Will Cry When You Die? -Robin Sharma

2008-01-19T10:48:00.000+05:30

YOU have to stop waiting for other people to make the changes that you desire.Be the change that you want to see the most in this world.
-Mahatma Gandhi.

WE live on a minor planet of a very average star located within the outer limits of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies. How's that for a change in perspective?Given this information, are your problems really that big? We walk on this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, we are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.
-Stephen Hawking.

DISCIPLINE allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do but never feel like doing.

The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life is ultimately decided by the quality of choices and decisions that you make, ones that range from the career you choose to pursue to the books that you read, the time that you wake up every morning to the thoughts that you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life. Effective, fulfilled people do not spend their time doing what is most convenient and comfortable. They have the courage to listen to their heart and do the wise thing. This habit is what makes them great.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing that you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
-Thomas Henry Huxley.

Every second you dwell on the past, you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems, you take away from finding the solutions. And thinking about all those things that you wish never happened to you is actually blocking all the things that you want to happen from entering into your life. Given the timeless truth that holds that you become what you think about all day long, it makes no sense to worry about past mistakes unless you want to experience them for a second time.

Happy people have often experienced as much adversity as those who are unhappy. What sets them apart is that they have the good sense to manage their memories in a way that enriches their lives.

I would rather have the bravery to try something and then fail than never to have tried it at all.

IT is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.
-Herotodus.

I have learned that success is to be measured by not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker T. Washington.

If your priorities dont get scheduled into your planner, other people's priorities will find their way into your planner.

Learning to say no to the non-essentials will give you more time to devote to the things that have the power to truly improve the way you live and help you leave the legacy, you know in your heart, you are destined to leave.

Organizing your life so that you get to do more of the things you love to do is one of the first steps to life improvement.

You are not here to merely make a living. You are her in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
-Woodrow Wilson.

Those who dont make time for exercise must eventually make time for illness.

The first step to realizing your life vision is defining it. And the first step to becoming the person you want to be is identifying the traits of the person you want to be.