Saturday, November 29, 2008

Quotes

“God is not on the side of the big arsenals, but on the side of those who shoot best” – Voltaire

“There is always room at the top. Don’t stop trying” – Daniel Webster

“Small is beautiful”

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Relation

Better give ur hand to someone who will never leave u alone...Rather than holding a hand which is not open for u.

Winning

Will to winning is nothing but Will to prepare.

The One

You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best, You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Success

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Constants in Life

"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."

Power

People with power deny it. People who are seeking power try not to be seeking it. People who are good at getting it are secretive about how they got it.

Memorable Quotes from "Fight Club"

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Only after a disaster can we be resurrected.

Tyler Durden: Let go with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Tyler Durden: Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel's life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.

Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.
Narrator: huh?
Tyler Durden: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Narrator: On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Tyler Durden: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Tyler Durden: Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Narrator: And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Tyler Durden: Right. We are consumers. We're the bi-products of a lifestyle obsession.

Narrator: If I didn't say anything, people always assumed the worst.

Tyler Durden: You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.




Monday, November 3, 2008

A short story from "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari"

Say you were lost in the woods in the middle of the winter. You desperately needed to stay warm. All you have in your knapsack is a letter your best friend had sent to you, a tin of tuna and a small magnifying glass that you carry to compensate for your fading eyesight. Luckily, you managed to find some dry kindling wood, but unfortunately you have no matches. How would you light the fire?"

Good grief. Julian had stumped me. I had no idea what the answer was.

"I give up."

"It's very simple. Place the letter amongst the dry wood and hold the magnifying glass over it. The rays of the sun will be focused so as to ignite the fire within a matter of seconds."

"And what about the can of tuna?"

"Oh, I just threw that in to distract you from the obvious solution," Julian replied with a smile. "But the essence of the example is this: putting the letter over the dry wood would produce no result. Yet, the second you use the magnifying glass to concentrate the scattered rays of the sun onto the letter, it will ignite. This analogy holds true for the mind. When you concentrate its tremendous power on definite, meaningful objectives, you will quickly ignite the flames of your personal potential and produce startling results."

Excerpts from "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari"

  • To savor the good one must know the bad.
  • To transcend pain, you must first experience it. Or to put it another way, how can you really know the joy of being on the summit of the mountain unless you have first visited the lowest valley.
  • If you meet with an outcome you did not expect and feel a little disappointed, remember that the laws of nature always ensure that when one door closes another opens.
  • I have had dreams and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
  • Awaken yourself to the power of your own mind to make things happen. Once you do, the universe will conspire with you to work magic in your life.
  • When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
  • Persistence is the mother of personal change.
  • Ironically, the less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come. With one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.