* Winning isn’t everything, But wanting to win is.* You would achieve more, if you don’t mind who gets the credit. * When everything else is lost, the future still remains. * Don’t fight too much. Or the enemy would know your art of war . * The only job you start at the top is when you dig a grave. * If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for everything. * If you do little things well, you’ll do big ones better. * Only thing that comes to you without effort is old age. * You won’t get a second chance to make the first impression . * Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes. * Never take a problem to your boss unless you have a solution. * If you are not failing you’re not taking enough risks. * Don’t try to get rid of bad temper by losing it. * If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. * Those who don’t make mistakes usually don’t make anything * There are two kinds of failures. Those who think and never do, and those who do and never think. * Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. * All progress has resulted from unpopular decisions. * Change your thoughts and you change your world. * Understanding proves intelligence, not the speed of the learning. * There are two kinds of fools in this world. Those who give advise and those who don’t take it. * The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting. * Friendship founded on business is always better than business founded on friendship .
Category Archives: Thoughts
No fire can burn the truth!
God! is, even though the whole world deny him. Trust stands, even is there be no public support. It is self-sustained. –Gandhi Ji
Albert Einstein – inspirational words of wisdom
Sayings of Hadhrat (Hazrat) Ali Ibn Abi Talib (RA)
*Silence is the best reply to a fool *Humility is the outcome of knowledge *Forgiveness is the crown of greatness
*To assist the wrong is to oppress the right *Friendship is impossible with a liar *Enmity is the occupation of fools *Pride blocks progress and damages greatness *Boasting issues from small minds *None is more respected than a pious person *Your tongue will speak out what it is accustomed to *Ones behaviour is the index to ones mind.
Two things are infinite
What lies before us, and what lies behind us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein
Silence must be heard
Look into others eyes, many frustrations. Read between the lines, no words just vibrations. Don’t ignore hidden desires. Pay attention, you are playing with fire. Silence must be heard, noise should be observed. – unknown
There are some people ..
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality, and then there are those who turns one into the other.” – Doughlas Everett.
New Ideas
Humanity’s mind, stretched to new ideas, never goes back to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendel Holmes
When you take care of something, it lasts a long time. -Zen saying
The wisest man?
Socrates was actually a very annoying old man. He questioned people about their beliefs and about what they thought they knew to be true. Some people thought him the wisest man in town. But he just said, if I am wise, it is because I admit I know nothing!
The earth for all the people-that’s the demand!
Full opportunity for full development is the inalienable right of all. He who denies it is a tyrant, he who does not demand it is a coward, he who does no desire it is a slave. The earth for all the people-that’s the demand! Eugene V. Debs
Never be quite so alone again
When you learn to read you will be born again … and you will never be quite so alone again. – RUMER GODDEN
Death may be the greatest good
For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: But they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? – Socrates
Quotation of Hazrat Ali (AS)
Whoever Goes After unreasonable and unnecessary Rationalizations will Never Be able to Reach Truth. Hazrat Ali (AS)
Help one another
“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendships, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.” – Bill Bradly
He hurts not any living being
“A man is not a great man because he is a warrior and kills other men; but because he hurts not any living being he in truth is called a great man.” –Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada
Nature has given us one tongue, but two ears
Nature has given us one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak. – Zeno of Elea, Fragments VI, 5th century BC
IT IS A TIME FOR CHANGE
by Indur Chhugani, India, ikchhugani@yahoo.com
It is a time for new beginnings & hope for a better tomorrow. We all talk about change. But how will that change come?
Change begins with a change in our mindset, a change in our hearts, and when we say that we can and we will make a difference! We all want a more secure environment to live in, and a law and order system that provides this to us. We owe this to our children and their future…
Who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results, only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim... But it happens further quite naturally that men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So the dominant idea of these despisers of their fellows is to find others’ theories faulty and to try to contradict them. The difficulty, for science, is still the same. – Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, 1865
It is man-made
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. – NELSON MANDELA, BBC, FEBRUARY 5, 2005
Why not try to do something to build bridges!
“We thought, why not try to do something to build bridges between people who see each others as opposites… says Ronni Abergel, co-founder who conceived the idea after his friend was stabbed by a stranger. The program, launched in Denmark in 2000, was his way of breaching the divide between people. Says Abergel: If we felt more at ease in our neighbourhood or schools we would have more life quality, all of us.”
Journey within your self
But you have no need to go any where Journey within your self. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. – Rumi
Lifting the veil on the niqab
There is no requirement in Islam to cover one’s face — the niqab is the epitome of male control over Muslim women
By Tarek Fatah, Citizen SpecialFebruary 5, 2009
Barely a week goes by when my religion, Islam, does not face a fresh round of scrutiny. If it is not a suicide bomber blowing himself up in an Iraqi mosque screaming “Allah O Akbar,” it is news that an imam in Malaysia has declared the practice of Yoga sinful. If it is not a Toronto imam defending suicide bombing on TVO, a Muslim woman writes a column in a Canadian daily, advocating the introduction of Shariah law in Canada. Continue reading Lifting the veil on the niqab
A beautiful idea
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it. – C.S. Lawis (1898-1963)
French Revolution- A legacy that inspire future generations worldwide
(Men are born free and equal in their rights.. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.) By declaring the Rights of Man, and not just of French men, the French Revolution left a legacy to inspire future generations worldwide.
The self-delusion that plagues both sides in this conflict
Courtesy and Thanks: Daily Dawn
By Robert Fisk
During the second Palestinian “intifada”, I was sitting in the offices of Hizbollah’s Al-Manar television station in Beirut, watching news footage of a militiaman’s funeral in Gaza. The television showed hordes of Hamas and PLO gunmen firing thousands of rounds of ammunition into the air to honour their latest “martyr”; and I noticed, just next to me, a Lebanese Hizbollah member – who had taken part in many attacks against the Israelis in what had been Israel’s occupation zone in southern Lebanon – shaking his head.
Continue reading The self-delusion that plagues both sides in this conflict
Social Psychology
How Do Groups Change Individuals?
Did you ever wonder why people who are accused of serious crimes such as murder are entitled to be tried by a jury rather than by a judge? The word “entitled” implies that a group decision might be more advantageous for the defendant than a decision made by one individual, even if that individual happens to be a judge who is an expert on the law. Jury members are ordinary citizens who might have more in common with the defendant than would a judge.
Those who think
Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. – Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, 1873
The impossible, as possible
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.– Cherie Carter-Scott
Thoughts for life
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. When you say I love you, mean it. In disagreement, fight fairly. No name calling. Don’t judge people by their relatives. Talk slowly but think quickly. Remember that great achivements involve great risk. When you lose don’t lose lesson. When you realize you have made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship. When some one asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, why do you want to know.
Good Quotation
I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Alva Edison (1847- 1931)
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