Quotes and Thoughts for the Day

Fairy Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:54:00 +0000

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
--G. K. Chesterton

My Thoughts:
Have you ever been to a Zoo…? Now you are thinking, what a stupid Question! OK then, another question….In the Zoo have you observed the Elephant tied with a chain? If you could remember, the chain which it is tied to seems too thin to tie a huge animal like an Elephant. But it works, the Elephant never breaks it. Do you know why the Elephant is never able to break the chain? Now it seems I am making sense…..The reason people say is when the Elephant is small, it is tied to a stronger chain which it cannot break. As the Elephant grows up it starts developing the Psychology that the chain which is tied to is strong enough that he would not be able to break. And hence, even if the grown up Elephant has the strength to break the chain…it never tries!!

This is exactly with us, Humans. We are born to conquer the world, but somehow as we grow up the thought that “I won’t able to do this” start becoming our mentality. The above quote state how important is to nurture your child with the correct mentality and “Yes, I can do it” kind of attitude.

Well these were my thoughts on this quote. Looking forward for words from your side.

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Wednesday, 13 Aug '08

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:04:00 +0000

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
--Thomas A. Edison

My Thoughts:

In my childhood, I have read this story of the King and the Spider. In this story the King sees the spider trying to build the web but it fails a couple of times. The king says to the Spider that she should stop trying to build the web. The spider refuses and finally she succeeds in building the web. Looking at this the King realizes his mistake and acknowledges the Spider for her Determination (you can read the whole story here).

The moral of the story is never give-up. We usually get frustrated when things don’t work. We get annoyed when we find things which are not the way we wanted. But all we have to remember is that most of the times we would end up at solutions that don’t work. But that’s not waste your effort if you had learned something from it. That’s how life teaches us a lesson. All we have to do is Try-Try till we succeed.

What do you say about this?

Time Wasted

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:43:00 +0000

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

--Muhammad Ali

My Thoughts:
When I read this Quote, I remember my English Teacher, Prof. Anthony. He used to tell us about his experiences with teachers with horrible English, who he claims have been teaching English for more that 10 years!

While telling this, the point Prof. Anthony wanted to make was that when these teachers said they had 10 years of experience, they actually meant they had effectively 2 years of experience and for the rest 8 years they repeated the same thing they had learned for the first 2 years.

I feel that there is always something new to be learned, each day….err…each moment. A person who had not learned anything from his life has wasted the precious time of his life.

These were my thoughts, Looking forward to hear it from you

Take Charge

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:51:00 +0000

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
--Earl Nightingale

My Thoughts:

I would like to share a story which I had received from a friend by email. I goes like this….

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, 'Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life."

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live. "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man." I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. ’Yes', I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'"

Jerry lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

I think this story is enough food for thought for this Quote. Looking forward for hear it from you

Be The Change

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 05:01:00 +0000

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"

--Mahatma Gandhi

My Thoughts:

I chose this particular Quote for my first Blog because of three reasons:

1. Its speaks about Life and death -- Lets take a situation when a person knows he is going to die the next day…..would he spend his day in the same way as he had been doing all his life?

2. It speaks about continuous learning -- I always feel that Life is trying to teach me a lot each day….each moment…..and what is Life trying to teach me….? I think it is teaching me what it is…!

3. The Quote is by Gandhi-ji – It is no wonder to have such precious words of wisdom from one of the most influential person in the history of this world, whom we call as Mahatma (Superior Soul).

These were my thoughts on this quote. Looking forward to know about your thoughts and please correct me if I am wrong in any sense.

Bargaining?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

“Customer is King and King don’t bargain”

--Anonymous

My Thoughts:
This was written on a poster at a stationary shop I visited. And by the way, Enjoy the Quote!

You should not stop

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:32:00 +0000

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

--Albert Einstein

My Thoughts:
You always accept it as it is. They say it is the conventional truth. This was followed by your forefathers. And that’s the reason you don’t question.

Remember, if you don’t question, your doubts would not be solved. So be ready to challenge the conventional truth.

In which direction are you moving?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

My Thoughts:
On which platform you are standing is not of any importance. The train you take determines your destination.

Same is with your life, where you are – is not important, what you do is what determines your destiny.

Beware of Idealist

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”

--H. L. Mencken

My Thoughts:
The world is full of such types. They would reach to a conclusion after analyzing anything.

Beware of these people!

Sensibly silly

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

--Jane Austen

My Thoughts:
You might have experienced this, when you tell a joke nobody laughs and when the same joke is told by a standup artist, that a great hit.

I have learned that not only the content matters, but also the presentation does. So the wrapper is as important as the product itself.

Endurable Pain

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”

--John Patrick

My Thoughts:
After reading this, does it seems to you that pain is good. Sometimes I think it is. After all, many a times, you learn new things only if you learn form your mistakes.

So the next time you have a painful experience, you know that there would be a happy ending if you have a thought on it.

Two reasons to die

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

“Men die for two diametrically opposed reasons: when they value what they seek to defend, and when there is nothing worth living for.”
--M. J. Akbar

My Thoughts:
There is some purpose of your valuable life – this is what I have been telling in my previous quotes. And I repeat this again.

When you die, people would remember your deeds, the cause you lived for. In this world, there are people who live for a cause and there are others who don’t have a cause. So which group you want to belong?

The double illusion

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:37:00 +0000

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
--Douglas Adams

My Thoughts:
Just Enjoy the Quote!

Change the world and have a good time

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:37:00 +0000

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”

--E. B. White

My Thoughts:
Today happens to be my Birthday! And I am writing this quote to remind myself that I have lost one year of my life to change the world and to enjoy life.

And doing both is a difficult job. But I would do all my best to bring change this world as I enjoy!

Know where to Hit

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Friday, 20 Mar '09

“Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.”

--Anonymous

My Thoughts:
Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"

So they wrote a note to the old man saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer ........................ $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap ........................... $ 9998.00

Bricks they throw

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Thursday, 19 Mar '09

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him”

--David Brinkley

My Thoughts:
Don’t be depressed by what people say you or if they ill-treat you. These are like bricks that they throw at you.

You have to make your building of success by these bricks and then show these people your capabilities!

Change yourself

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Wednesday, 18 Mar '09

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

--Leo Tolstoy

My Thoughts:
The story goes like this…..once there was a King; he once went for a tour of his kingdom. On his way walking, his foot was hurt by a thorn. Soon he ordered his minister to cover every inch of his kingdom with velvet so that no thorn can hurt him.

But then there was a wise minister who said that “My Lord, why don’t you wear Shoes?” We all behave like the king, just wanting to change the world at first thought. But if you think deeply, you would find that changing oneself is more effective!

Never got that

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Tuesday, 17 Mar '09

“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

--Jonathan Swift

My Thoughts:
As I had said yesterday, about my appraisal discussion……I tried in all verbal ways to convince my boss that I deserve a better rating but that of course didn’t work.

Then I occurred to me, the words of my Prof. Anthony. He said that teachers don’t give marks to students because they never got those marks. Same applies here, my jerk boss never got a good rating….and the story goes……

Point of View

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Monday, 16 Mar '09

“The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view”

--Albert Einstein

My Thoughts:
Yesterday, yes on Sunday, I was having discussion with my Boss for my appraisal. And I got a feel of this, how someone can be so dumb to have no acknowledgement of someone’s work and say that this is in my point of view.

They cannot see beyond the horizon and don’t want to face the realities and then they say that’s their point of view.

Friendly Man

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Sunday, 15 Mar '09

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

--Samuel Butler

My Thoughts:
Just Enjoy the Quote!

Man and Destiny

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Saturday, 14 Mar '09

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

--Henry Miller

My Thoughts:
As I have said in my earlier quotes that each one of us has a reason to be here on earth. And that each one of us has a destiny written.

So understand that whatever happens; happens for a reason. You need to understand this and follow your destiny. But that’s not it! You should be able to accept your destiny and do what is correct for all.

Time is timely

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Friday, 13 Mar '09

“You may delay, but time will not.”

--Benjamin Franklin

My Thoughts:
As it is said – Time and Tide wait’s for none. You may stop for the time being, but time would not.

Your days on earth are numbered. You better catch up with time so that you complete your task on this earth.

Heartily Gratitude

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Thursday, 12 Mar '09

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

--John F. Kennedy

My Thoughts:
Most of the times we say thank you to people but the other person knows that’s a blank envelope. You are saying that just for the sake; to complete the tradition.

That’s not what gratitude is, it’s only a gesture to complete the tradition! Gratitude is what you really say from your heart and you live by your words.

Muscle Strength

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Wednesday, 11 Mar '09

“Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but tenderness in one's spirit.”

--McCallister Dodds

My Thoughts:
Mother Teresa was a old woman, weaker physically. But does that physical weakness stop her from spreading the message of peace? Certainly not!

All that matters is the strength of the inside. The strength to do the right thing is courage.

Empty Stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Tuesday, 10 Mar '09

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

-- Norman Vincent Peale

My Thoughts:
As simple as that; no further comments on this!