tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64270797520096117442024-03-04T20:58:11.915-08:00quotesalleyTushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-31269473508029614162011-01-24T05:38:00.000-08:002011-01-24T05:38:00.431-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Inspiration:</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"The World's Best Quotes in 1-10 Words."</span></span><br /><br />I've collected thousands of inspirational quotes. It seems that nearly everything that can be said, has been said, simply and eloquently, in a way that can seldom be improved. Winston Churchill wrote, "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." So, I collected "The world's best quotes in one to ten words." These are the quotes:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">1. Love. —The Prophets</span><br /><br />Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.<br /><br />We hear, "Love makes the world go round," and "Love heals all wounds." These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2. Know thyself. —Socrates</span><br /><br />In college I studied philosophy under Professor Don Crosby, and met Socrates early. In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.<br /><br />Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">3. Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi</span><br /><br />Under Vincent Thomas Lombardi's direction, the Green Bay Packers collected six division titles, five NFL championships, two Super Bowls, and record of 98-30-4. Lombardi knew a lot about winning. If football is a game of inches, so is career success. In the competitive world, you seldom win by a landslide.<br /><br />Buzz Sullivan, my high school diving coach, told me, "A champion is someone who goes so far they can't go another inch—and then they go that inch." I wondered why that was important. Now I know. Winning in business or in personal life is all about inches: going small distances successfully, then going farther still.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">4. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost</span><br /><br />We are swamped in change. And we had better get used to it, or at least figure out how to deal with it. In our parents' day, career change was uncommon. The norm was lifetime employment. Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay.<br /><br />Martin Bucco taught English literature at Colorado State University, and first brought my attention to what words could mean. Bucco spoke of what he called "the great dead minds," those who have come before us and written their thoughts. He also said, "Time in life is short. You can only read so many books, so choose wisely." We spent many classes unwrapping Robert Frost's genius, and this is one of the poems that hit home:<br /><br />NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost<br /> Nature's first green is gold,<br /> Her hardest hue to hold.<br /> Her early leaf's a flower;<br /> But only so an hour.<br /> Then leaf subsides to leaf.<br /> So Eden sank to grief,<br /> So dawn goes down to day.<br /> Nothing gold can stay.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">5. Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran</span><br /><br />About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one's gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that "being in the right place," "finding a good fit," or "making the best use of one's talents."<br /><br />In What Color Is Your Parachute? my mentor, Dick Bolles, quotes Fred Buechner, who writes, "There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work . . . (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." [2001 Edition, page 57.]<br /><br />High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It's not that we shouldn't seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we're doing. That's the realization of our highest calling.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">6. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)</span><br /><br />We live in a McDonald's culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.<br /><br />Many things are created suddenly: the two-day house makeovers on HOME & GARDEN TELEVISION, for example, but they aren't great. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.<br /><br />Stellar careers aren't built overnight. Take the orthopedic surgeon, whose education extends 15 years past high school. Take the country western star on Grand Ole' Opry. Take the NFL quarterback or wide receiver, the CEOs, CFOs, and Vice Presidents of brand-name companies. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.<br /><br />Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, "Nothing good happens fast." I framed it, and hung it in my office.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">7. Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin</span><br /><br />This is a variation on "Actions speak louder than words" and on Shakespeare's superb quote, "Talkers are no good doers." An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, "There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">8. No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne</span><br /><br />The cliche, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there," is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. "Career Planning" speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to "Begin with the end in mind."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">9. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca</span><br /><br />I've been there. You've been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You're fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill's words, "Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense." And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">10. Do first things first, and second things not at all. —Peter Drucker.</span><br /><br />It's so easy to do what's familiar, comfortable, or fun. It's so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it's difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, "I can't see the forest for the trees."<br /><br />We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.<br /><br />When you're flooded with career possibilities, or "swimming up Niagara Falls," it's good to spend time answering questions like, "What is the best and highest use of my talents?" and, "How can I make a bigger impact?"<br /><br />If you can't establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your "first things" and "second things." Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don't know what your "first things" are, you simply can't do them FIRST.<br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/owner/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/owner/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="" />Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-20298166509780754512009-10-23T08:15:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.004-07:00Love Quotes<span style="font-style: italic;">"Hold my hand and I'll take you there, somehow, someday, somewhere."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">From West Side Story</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">David Hawkins</span></span> (Internationally renowned psychiatrist, physician, researcher)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Karen Sunde</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A. A. Milne</span></span> (Creator of Winnie the Pooh)<br /><br />"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Shakespeare</span></span><br /><br />"Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you."<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Vipin Sharma</span></span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-77241991060773070032009-10-23T02:51:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.016-07:00Sorry QuotesA man is sorry to be honest for nothing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ovid</span><br /><br />Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">H. G. Wells</span><br /><br />AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ryan White</span><br /><br />All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Deborah Kerr</span><br /><br />Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Judith Moore</span><br /><br />An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mitch Hedberg</span><br /><br />And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Monica Lewinsky</span><br /><br />As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rosie Perez</span><br /><br />As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Bobby Vinton</span><br /><br />Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Charles Osgood</span><br /><br />Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Douglas Horton</span><br /><br />But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Philip Gibbs</span><br /><br />But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas Keneally</span><br /><br />But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rory Bremner</span><br /><br />Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Andrew Lloyd Webber</span><br /><br />Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Karl Kraus</span><br /><br />Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Eric San</span><br /><br />Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Agnes Repplier</span><br /><br />Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Arthur Ashe</span><br /><br />Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mitch Hedberg </span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-13097863616779639712009-10-23T01:54:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.032-07:00Humor QuotesA joke is a very serious thing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Winston Churchill</span><br /><br />A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Henry Ward Beecher</span><br /><br />A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mignon McLaughlin</span><br /><br />A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Clifton Paul Fadiman</span><br /><br />A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Hugh Sidey</span><br /><br />A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Jessamyn West</span><br /><br />A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William A. Ward</span><br /><br />Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">E. B. White</span><br /><br />Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sid Caesar</span><br /><br />Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Peter Ustinov</span><br /><br />Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William James</span><br /><br />Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mark Twain</span><br /><br />Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas W. Higginson</span><br /><br />Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Agnes Repplier</span><br /><br />Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Agnes Repplier</span><br /><br />Humor is just another defense against the universe.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mel Brooks</span><br /><br />Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mark Twain</span><br /><br />Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Irvin S. Cobb</span><br /><br />Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Christopher Morley</span><br /><br />Humor is reason gone mad.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Groucho Marx</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-10236176138049101272009-07-19T09:57:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.048-07:00Albert Einstein (1879-1955)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrTiFbtkDmRlZyK-2Pm-7TlqwHRlqISzD4ccxZ6DGfkpnsLx-x5tfgKLIrYNd32tF1Qv8HK4sHLb9HXG2TrKuOdOtC8lOQpaEAHzxsRWprs6W2iNhs0TXH2BloFFgYif85eOfy295hpI/s1600-h/Albert_Einstein.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360217131198465746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrTiFbtkDmRlZyK-2Pm-7TlqwHRlqISzD4ccxZ6DGfkpnsLx-x5tfgKLIrYNd32tF1Qv8HK4sHLb9HXG2TrKuOdOtC8lOQpaEAHzxsRWprs6W2iNhs0TXH2BloFFgYif85eOfy295hpI/s400/Albert_Einstein.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 391px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br />A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />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.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.<br /><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: black;">~</span>Albert Einstein</span><br /><!-- BEGIN STANDARD TAG - 468 x 60 - ROS: Run of site: default description - DO NOT MODIFY --><br /><iframe scrolling="no" width="468" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" src="http://ad.media-servers.net/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=468x60&section=658316" height="60" marginwidth="0"></iframe>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-27417835861843863042009-07-19T08:53:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.058-07:00Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARwGydGF04bwtTlL83nIed3XJrc1BpOhncjYtwpir9nLzlF4FSziOf_nZsknA3eSy2FspXnmW74v1EJhRms3idq6p6NTNMhE3B6tFB1JOBXYR_-dEub51xpaj-GEQWHjzgjizeAb-meI/s1600-h/abraham-lincoln1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjARwGydGF04bwtTlL83nIed3XJrc1BpOhncjYtwpir9nLzlF4FSziOf_nZsknA3eSy2FspXnmW74v1EJhRms3idq6p6NTNMhE3B6tFB1JOBXYR_-dEub51xpaj-GEQWHjzgjizeAb-meI/s400/abraham-lincoln1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360201731632993298" border="0" /></a><br />A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />A house divided against itself cannot stand.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />As our case is new, we must think and act anew.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Avoid popularity if you would have peace.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln</span><br /><br />Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Lincoln </span><br /><!-- BEGIN STANDARD TAG - 468 x 60 - ROS: Run of site: default description - DO NOT MODIFY --><br /><iframe scrolling="no" width="468" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" src="http://ad.media-servers.net/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=468x60&section=658316" height="60" marginwidth="0"></iframe>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-48851653579690556272009-07-19T08:31:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.070-07:00Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFSbOPZwhpbCOFj3fF9gHMP8iCMoiNum-rywhQDg1Koi5wA8h9DJjQqzOcqgK3SVsZb7FnWHUKNGzYAHBmVtOxvXWCKmWNcXbbgpaGDyyYi0SG_oF71p3ppuDYDvrB6ZeYhQuES7Wreok/s1600-h/oscar_wilde.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFSbOPZwhpbCOFj3fF9gHMP8iCMoiNum-rywhQDg1Koi5wA8h9DJjQqzOcqgK3SVsZb7FnWHUKNGzYAHBmVtOxvXWCKmWNcXbbgpaGDyyYi0SG_oF71p3ppuDYDvrB6ZeYhQuES7Wreok/s400/oscar_wilde.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360197645032834786" border="0" /></a> <br /><br />The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Acting and the Theatre Quotes</span><br /><br />The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Advice Quotes</span><br /><br />(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | America and Americans Quotes</span><br /><br />Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Art and the Artist Quotes</span><br /><br />There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Censorship Quotes</span><br /><br />At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Character and Personality Quotes</span><br /><br />Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | The City and the Country Quotes</span><br /><br />Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Consistency Quotes</span><br /><br />If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Crime and Punishment Quotes</span><br /><br />When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Critics and Criticism Quotes</span><br /><br />What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Cynicism Quotes</span><br /><br />He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes</span><br /><br />A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Enemies Quotes</span><br /><br />Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Experience Quotes</span><br /><br />The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Fear Quotes</span><br /><br />The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Genius Quotes</span><br /><br />There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes</span><br /><br />I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Hypocrisy Quotes</span><br /><br />I am not young enough to know everything.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Knowledge Quotes</span><br /><br />For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Life Quotes</span><br /><br />Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Memory Quotes</span><br /><br />Men become old, but they never become good.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Men Quotes</span><br /><br />Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Men and Women Quotes</span><br /><br />All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Men and Women Quotes</span><br /><br />To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Observation Quotes</span><br /><br />Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde | Optimism and Pessimism Quotes</span><br /><!-- BEGIN STANDARD TAG - 468 x 60 - ROS: Run of site: default description - DO NOT MODIFY --><br /><iframe scrolling="no" width="468" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" src="http://ad.media-servers.net/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=468x60&section=658316" height="60" marginwidth="0"></iframe>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-54317912590658548192009-07-15T04:55:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.082-07:00Adversity QuotesIf you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robert Fulghum</span><br /><br />Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">M. Kathleen Casey</span><br /><br />If you're going through hell, keep going. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Winston Churchill</span><br /><br />We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.<br /> ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Author Unknown</span><br /><br />A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.<br /> ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Author Unknown</span><br /><br />The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Shakespeare, Othello</span><br /><br />I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mother Teresa</span><br /><br />The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.<br /> ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Harry Golden</span><br /><br />We acquire the strength we have overcome. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br /><br />You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Uncle Remus</span><br /><br />Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.<br /> ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882</span><br /><br />If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oliver Wendell Holmes</span><br /><br />The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.<br /> ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rona Barrett</span><br /><br />Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Garth Brooks</span><br /><br />Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.<br /> ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Garrison Keillor</span><br /><br />Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Erich Fromm</span><br /><br /><br />I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Jewish Proverb</span><br /><br /><br />Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?<br /> ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Rose F. Kennedy</span><br /><br /><br />You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Henry Ward Beecher</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-65704362265918953532009-07-15T04:42:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.094-07:00Acceptance QuotesSome people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Arthur Gordon</span><br /><br />Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Catharine Marshall</span><br /><br />It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Simone de Beauvoir</span><br /><br />The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Maureen Dowd</span><br /><br />"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Debbi Fields</span><br /><br />God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Reinhold Niebuhr</span><br /><br />We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Martin Luther King, Jr.</span><br /><br />Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Kathleen Casey Theisen</span><br /><br />Self-complacency is fatal to progress.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Margaret Elizabeth Sangster</span><br /><br />You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Old German proverb</span><br /><br />Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Norman Cousins</span><br /><br />All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Kathleen Norris</span><br /><br />The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">H. Bertram Lewis</span><br /><br />For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Susan Sontag</span><br /><br />Who except the gods can live without any pain?<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Aeschylus</span><br /><br />Misfortune comes to all men.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Chinese proverb</span><br /><br />The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Clarence Day</span><br /><br />Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills self.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">W. C. Doane</span><br /><br />Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Joshua L. Liebman</span><br /><br />Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Bible</span><br /><br />Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span><br /><br />There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas a Kempis</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-3608730625911286452009-07-11T13:29:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.105-07:00Addiction QuotesCocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Tallulah Bankhead</span><br /><br />I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Unknown</span><br /><br />Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Carl Gustav Jung</span><br /><br />To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Jim Slinsky</span><br /><br />I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ray Charles</span><br /><br />Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-12029346277537974372009-07-11T13:27:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.115-07:00Anticipation QuotesIf pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Elbert Hubbard</span><br /><br />Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Charles Schwab</span><br /><br />There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Alfred Hitchcock</span><br /><br />Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Francois De La Rochefoucauld</span><br /><br />Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Samuel Johnson</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-4614558465549757712009-07-11T13:25:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.126-07:00Arrogance QuotesNothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Baron Wessenberg</span><br /><br />Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Frank Lloyd Wright</span><br /><br />For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Hal Borland</span><br /><br />He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">George Eliot</span><br /><br />There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Catherine Drinker Bowen</span><br /><br />Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Marya Mannes</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-55950423833168028892009-07-11T13:22:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.136-07:00Aggression QuotesDick Cheney blows birds out of the sky for pleasure but he drops bombs on Iraqi children for power.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Krodha Vakishwari</span><br /><br />Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Spencer</span><br /><br />It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Jawaharlal Nehru</span><br /><br />The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Alfred Adler</span><br /><br />Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sigmund Freud</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-4275229736784885522009-07-11T13:17:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.147-07:00Abortion QuotesIf men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Steinem</span><br /><br />No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mathewes-Green</span><br /><br />The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Harry A. Blackmun</span><br /><br />No woman has an abortion for fun.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Smith</span><br /><br />The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Teresa</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-30124065787572224782009-07-11T13:10:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.158-07:00Awareness QuotesWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Abraham Maslow</span><br /><br />To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Walter Benjamin</span><br /><br />The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Paul Tillich</span><br /><br />Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Charles A. Lindbergh</span><br /><br />The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Allen Ginsberg</span><br /><br />The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Virginia Woolf</span><br /><br />The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Paul Cezanne</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-80452685079888877942009-07-11T13:04:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.167-07:00Apathy QuotesMoments of complete apathy are the best for new creations. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Philip Breedveld</span><br /><br />Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Safire</span><br /><br />Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ralph Chaplin</span><br /><br />Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Frederic Chopin</span><br /><br />The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Georg C. Lichtenberg</span><br /><br />There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. <br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Juan Montalvo</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-13933107632623870302009-07-11T12:59:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.178-07:00Accident QuotesChapter of accidents.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Edmund Burke</span><br /><br />Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Charles Dickens</span><br /><br />To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Goldsmith</span><br /><br />Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Charles Kingsley</span><br /><br />Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ephraim Gotthold Lessing</span><br /><br />At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span><br /><br />By many a happy accident.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas Middleton</span><br /><br />What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller</span><br /><br />I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Shakespeare</span><br /><br />Of moving accidents by flood and field.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Shakespeare</span><br /><br />A happy accident.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)</span><br /><br />The accident of an accident.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lord Edward Thurlow</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-50263690917260702002009-07-11T06:08:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.188-07:00Absence QuotesAbsence makes the heart grow fonder.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Haynes Bayly</span><br /><br />For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Bible</span><br /><br />Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)</span><br /><br />Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Goldsmith</span><br /><br />Achilles absent, was Achilles still.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">("Smyrns of Chios")</span><br /><br />In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Jonson</span><br /><br />Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Francis Kazincy</span><br /><br />What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (Mrs. Butler)</span><br /><br />But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas a Kempis</span><br /><br />Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)</span><br /><br />For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)</span><br /><br />Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]<br />~<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld</span><br /><br />Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">George Linley</span><br /><br />Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">George Linley</span><br /><br />For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. - William Julius Mickle,<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Julius Mickle</span><br /><br />With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas Moore</span><br /><br />Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Alexander Pope</span><br /><br />Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sextus Propertius</span><br /><br />Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</span><br /><br />Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.<br />~ <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lord John Russell</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-56280955155064344482009-07-10T12:23:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.201-07:00Failure QuotesSuccess is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Winston Churchill</span><br /><br />Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">George Bernard Shaw</span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-19987171702510694742009-07-09T03:02:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.212-07:00Saying QuotesSometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Dalai Lama</span><br /><br />It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Winston Churchill</span><br /><br />It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ronald Reagan</span><br /><br />Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Friedrich Nietzsche</span><br /><br />Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mark Twain</span><br /><br />I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mark Twain</span><br /><br />If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Joel Osteen</span><br /><br />I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Joel Osteen</span><br /><br />Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br /><br />Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Groucho Marx</span><br /><br />I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mitch Hedberg</span><br /><br />When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mitch Hedberg</span><br /><br />When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John F. Kennedy</span><br /><br />All we are saying is give peace a chance.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John Lennon</span><br /><br />It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Erma Bombeck</span><br /><br />Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mae West</span><br /><br />Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robert Frost</span><br /><br />Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robert Frost</span><br /><br />A witty saying proves nothing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Voltaire</span><br /><br />While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Helen Keller </span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-85896264200525372602009-07-09T03:00:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.222-07:00Farewell QuotesA friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Donald E. Westlake</span><br /><br />Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Hans Urs von Balthasar</span><br /><br />Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robert Reed</span><br /><br />Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Richard Bach</span><br /><br />Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Etty Hillesum</span><br /><br />Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">J. R. R. Tolkien</span><br /><br />Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Donald Cargill</span><br /><br />Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Donald Cargill</span><br /><br />Farewell, fair cruelty.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Shakespeare</span><br /><br />I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Miriam Makeba</span><br /><br />I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas Francis Meagher</span><br /><br />It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lance Armstrong</span><br /><br />Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robert Byrne</span><br /><br />Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Richard Parks Bland</span><br /><br />On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Nellie Bly</span><br /><br />One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Richard Simmons</span><br /><br />Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Geezer Butler</span><br /><br />The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Galeazzo Ciano</span><br /><br />The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">James Weldon Johnson</span><br /><br />The return makes one love the farewell.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Alfred de Musset </span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-69160893551145059782009-07-09T02:49:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.232-07:00Motto QuotesA good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Frank Crane</span><br /><br />A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Courteney Cox</span><br /><br />Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ernestine L. Rose</span><br /><br />Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John McHugh</span><br /><br />And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Michael N. Castle</span><br /><br />Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Zakk Wylde</span><br /><br />Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robert Baden-Powell</span><br /><br />Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John Chafee</span><br /><br />Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas Jefferson</span><br /><br />Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Andrew Carnegie</span><br /><br />Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Angie Harmon</span><br /><br />I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">James Cash Penney</span><br /><br />I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Steve Brown</span><br /><br />I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Alan Kulwicki</span><br /><br />I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Susan B. Anthony</span><br /><br />I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Dawn French</span><br /><br />In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Stephen Colbert</span><br /><br />My motto - sans limites.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Isadora Duncan</span><br /><br />My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Charles Lamb</span><br /><br />My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Hank Aaron </span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-49003235688575586332009-07-09T02:46:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.242-07:00Optimism QuotesAlways the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Jim Ramstad</span><br /><br />And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Vernor Vinge</span><br /><br />But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Linda Lingle</span><br /><br />But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John Hench</span><br /><br />Comedy is acting out optimism.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robin Williams</span><br /><br />Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Howard Mumford Jones</span><br /><br />Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Richard M. DeVos</span><br /><br />For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Krzysztof Kieslowski</span><br /><br />Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Vaclav Havel</span><br /><br />I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John Hench</span><br /><br />I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Roberto Rossellini</span><br /><br />I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Herbert Croly</span><br /><br />I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Harry Nilsson</span><br /><br />I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Patricia Ireland</span><br /><br />I find nothing more depressing than optimism.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Paul Fussell</span><br /><br />I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Joan Blades</span><br /><br />If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Francis P. Yockey</span><br /><br />If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oscar Wilde</span><br /><br />It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Earle Brown</span><br /><br />My optimism for life carried through my work.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John Dyer </span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-44144561152527914512009-07-09T02:44:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.257-07:00Work QuotesA man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Albert Camus</span><br /><br />All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Martin Luther King, Jr.</span><br /><br />All things are difficult before they are easy.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas Fuller</span><br /><br />Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Al Capp</span><br /><br />As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Irvin S. Cobb</span><br /><br />Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Gustave Flaubert</span><br /><br />Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas A. Edison</span><br /><br />Every noble work is at first impossible.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas Carlyle</span><br /><br />Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas A. Edison</span><br /><br />Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Theodore Roosevelt</span><br /><br />Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">H. Jackson Brown, Jr.</span><br /><br />Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">J. Paul Getty</span><br /><br />Great ideas originate in the muscles.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas A. Edison</span><br /><br />Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sam Ewing</span><br /><br />I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Richard Nelson Bolles</span><br /><br />I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thomas A. Edison</span><br /><br />It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Pablo Picasso</span><br /><br />It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Faulkner</span><br /><br />Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Anne Frank</span><br /><br />Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Horace </span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427079752009611744.post-57018425960534554672009-07-09T02:42:00.000-07:002010-07-12T01:42:39.269-07:00War QuotesA soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Napoleon Bonaparte</span><br /><br />A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Herbert V. Prochnow</span><br /><br />All war is deception.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sun Tzu</span><br /><br />All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Francois Fenelon</span><br /><br />An unjust peace is better than a just war.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Marcus Tullius Cicero</span><br /><br />Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Dwight D. Eisenhower</span><br /><br />Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Colman McCarthy</span><br /><br />He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Albert Einstein</span><br /><br />I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">William Westmoreland</span><br /><br />I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ulysses S. Grant</span><br /><br />I have not yet begun to fight!<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John Paul Jones</span><br /><br />I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">John Adams</span><br /><br />I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">George McGovern</span><br /><br />If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Joan Baez</span><br /><br />If we don't end war, war will end us.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">H. G. Wells</span><br /><br />In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Ernest Hemingway</span><br /><br />In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Herodotus</span><br /><br />It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Voltaire</span><br /><br />It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Robert E. Lee</span><br /><br />It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Fred Woodworth </span>Tushar Batrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10100501633153589054noreply@blogger.com0