Thousands of Quotes but ONLY Some To Remember

save more, spend less

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Thu, 02 May 2013 03:47:00 +0000

Imbibed the "save more, spend less" ethos from my family which taught me that very single rupee matters.

[ Ramchandra Agarwal, Founder Chairman and MD, Vishal Megamart ]

It will be difficult...you will stumble and get hurt, but if you are determined enough, you will learn to support yourself.

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Thu, 02 May 2013 03:43:00 +0000

We believe it's time for you to find your own feet and be self-sufficient. It will be difficult...you will stumble and get hurt, but if you are determined enough, you will learn to support yourself.

[ Alok Kejriwal, Founder and CEO,Contest2Win about Renuka Ramnath, the CEO of ICICI Venture when it withdrew hand-holding support.]

Always make sure your employees are your partners - CEO,Edelweiss

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Thu, 02 May 2013 01:08:00 +0000

Always make sure your employees are your partners. This advice has always with us since then. It was an important piece of insight.

.....He continued...: There are two things which he said and which have stayed with me since that meeting. One was when he said , " Make sure you are profitable, otherwise you will share other people's dreams and not your own.The other one was his suggestion that we should put the guiding principles and values of our company in writing, so that every employee can go through them and be inspired to follow them.

Rashesh Shah, Founder Chairman and CEO, Edelweiss ( about a gem of advice received from Narayan Murthi, Infosys ex-chairman)

[extract from the book THE BEST ADVICE I EVER GOT ]

the Writers of the World - interesting quotes

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:50:00 +0000

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” - Stephen King

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.” - Ernest Hemingway

“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~” - Dr. Seuss

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” - Robert Frost

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.” - Meg Cabot

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” - Sylvia Plath

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” - Neil Gaiman

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” - William Faulkner

"Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs." - Jerome Stern

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." - George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1947

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head." - Ethel Wilson

“We are all story. That’s what my people say. From the moment we enter this physical reality until the moment we depart again as spirit, we are energy moving forward to the fullest possible expression of ourselves. “
~ Richard Wagamese, ~ One Story, One Song

"There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. " - Jessamyn West

"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation." - Elias Canetti

"Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word wh

en a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague." - William Safire 'Great Rules of Writing'

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." - Elmore Leonard

"It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if

you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories." - Paul Gallico

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. " - Vladimir Nabokov

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." - Orson Scott Card

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle"

John Cheever

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekhov

"Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head." - Finding Forrester

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As if those move easiest who have learn'd to dance." - Alexander Pope

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes." - Agatha Christie

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury R.I.P. You will be missed.

"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces." - Harold Ross

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." - Enrique Jardiel Poncela

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad." - Lord Byron

"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction." - Dylan Thomas letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938

"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can." - Samuel Lover, 'Handy Andy'

"Let me walk through the fields of paper
touching with my wand
dry stems and stunted
butterflies..."
-Denise Levertov, "a Walk through the Notebooks"

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." - Anaïs Nin

"There's so much why out there... surround yourself with why not... It costs nothing to encourage artists. I've been trying to impart one simple lesson for 20 years. Anyone can do this... Tell people it's worth the shot. Just do it to see if it can be done, live a why not life." - Kevin Smith in 'Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell' (film is NSFW for strong language)

“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” - J.D. Salinger

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” - W. Somerset Maugham

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” - Ray Bradbury

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"Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult." ~David Cronenberg

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." - E. B. White #Writ

"Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do." ~Shania Twain #writing #quotes

"The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing." ~David Sedaris #writing #quotes

‎"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all." ~ Anne Tyler #writing #quotes

"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence." ~Samuel Beckett #writing #quotes

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"I have slept in twenty-six locations in the last seven months." In today's Daily News novelist Jami Attenberg details the sometimes-difficult attempt to maintain life as a writer.

"You can't just write for your own amusement." Rochelle Spencer

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Emerging Blogger Pepi Ronalds on the art of interviewing:
"Of every twenty people I spoke to, I found one or two that I might interview. As I wrote the story, that number went down. Writing is so much about cutting. Paring it down makes it a better piece. But I always feel a little twinge of guilt as I cut characters and stories from my work. These aren’t imaginary characters I’m cutting. They’re real people."

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“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.” - Ellen DeGeneres

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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” - Mark Twain

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” - Oscar Wilde

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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac

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“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.” - Kurt Vonnegut

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Three Signs of Corporate Life

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:34:00 +0000

Three Signs of Corporate Life

1) Stressed
2) Depressed
but,
3) Still Well Dressed ...! ;)

Enlightenment - Heron Dance

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:31:00 +0000

Source :herondance.org Enlightenment - Heron Dance

Shakespeare's Shylock

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:29:00 +0000

Shylock: Go to then, you come to me, and you say, "Shylock, we would have moneys," you say so. . . . Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whisp'ring humbleness, Say this: "Fair sir, you spet on me Wednesday last, You spurn'd me such a day, another time You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys"? The Merchant Of Venice Act 1, scene 3, 115–116, 123–129 The Venetian merchant Antonio and his friends take a dim view of Shylock, the Jewish usurer, and his practice of charging interest on loans. For his "un-Christian" behavior, the Christians spit on Shylock, call him a cur, and kick him around the streets of Venice. In this speech—delivered when, as was inevitable, Antonio calls on Shylock for a loan—the usurer turns Antonio's words and actions against him. Shylock asks whether, after the treatment he's received, he should now servilely bow, whisper like a "bondman" (slave), and put himself at Antonio's disposal. He mocks the idea that he ought to respond "with bated breath"—a much misunderstood phrase. "To bate," like "to abate," means to diminish, reduce, or blunt. "With bated breath," therefore, means "in a hushed voice," with reduced "breath" (force of speech). We've adopted the phrase to mean, most often, "with one's breath held."

The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:42:00 +0000

'What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like thunderbolt. … Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?'

Swami Vivekananda

so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Vivekananda and Budha

During the early days of his explorations, Swami Vivekananda travelled widely all over

India

, many a time without food. His aim was to travel to Kanyakumari. He always proceeded alone on these journeys quoting the famous words of Buddha: 'Even as the lion not trembling at noises, even as the wind not caught in a net, even as the lotus leaf untouched by the water, so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros.' After reaching Kanyakumari he worshipped Devi Kanyakumari in the shrine and then swam across the shark-infested waters to meditate on the rocks where, according to the Puranas, the Devi had performed tapasya.

Let us be Gods, let us make our hearts like an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:37:00 +0000

The nature of the brute is to remain where he is, of a human being to seek good and to avoid evil, and of God to neither seek nor avoid but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be Gods, let us make our hearts like an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy it without being in any way affected by it.

Swami Vivekananda

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:37:00 +0000

The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment.

Swami Vivekananda

Wouldn’t it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God?

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them! So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection.

A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth.

One has to be free, and as broad as the sky. Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn’t it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?

Swami Vivekananda

Give everything and look for no return.

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:35:00 +0000

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us -Swami Vivekananda

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone’s door

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:34:00 +0000

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone’s door. In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy. Science and religion will meet and shake hands. Poetry and philosophy will become friends.What! Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time--and you have no time! - Vivekananda sayings.

Freedom is the goal of all nature.

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:31:00 +0000

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you.

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:31:00 +0000

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.” If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish - Swami Vivekananda

Vivekananda sayings:First you have to build the body by good nutritious food—then only will the mind be strong.

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:27:00 +0000

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms. If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food—then only will the mind be strong.

Vivekananda Life:facing family poverty

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:26:00 +0000

When How You Lead A Life Becomes Quotable:

Swami Vivekananda Searching Job
There is a small memoir in the life of Vivekananda. When Vivekananda’s father died, there was so much poverty in his home that often there was not enough food for both mother and son. So, Vivekananda would tell his mother, ”Today I am invited to a friend’s house, I will go there.” In fact there was no invitation, no nothing, he would just roam around on the roads and later return home. Otherwise the food was so little that his mother would feed him and would remain hungry herself.

So, he would return home with an empty stomach but happy and laughing saying loudly, ”It was a wonderful meal! Such delicious food dishes were cooked!” He would enter the house talking of those food stuffs that were nowhere cooked for him, that he had not eaten anywhere.

Girish Chandra Speaks "householders do not much understand Vedas and Upanishads, but we see genuine love for humanity in Swami Vivekananda and hence love him and his sangha."

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:24:00 +0000

One more touching incidence is worth recounting from the life of Swami Vivekananda. Once the Swami was delivering a talk on Vedas to the sannyasins of the Math. The whole country was in the grip of famine; people were suffering and even dying of hunger. Girish Chandra Gosh, a close associate of Swami Vivekananda and devotee of Sri Ramakrishna was listening to the erudite talk, but felt that such a talk was useless and misplaced, for it did not help mitigate the pangs of hunger of millions. Hence, intervening, Girish said, 'Swamiji, would this talk bring peace and solace to the suffering humanity? Can Vedanta and Vedas bring food to the hungry mouths? How I feel for them, what should I do! What can I do?'

Listening to the fervent appeal full of pathos and sincere feeling, the broad and tender heart of Swami Vivekananda melted, and tears rolled down his cheek. Not to embarrass the sannyasins, Swami Vivekananda rushed away to his chamber in great distress. Turning to the group of sannyasins, Girish Babu said, "See, how compassionate your swami is; we householders do not much understand Vedas and Upanishads, but we see genuine love for humanity in Swami Vivekananda and hence love him and his sangha."

Vivekananda recollection: the veritable embodiment of God - such simplicity, such sincere guileless love I have seen nowhere else.

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:22:00 +0000

Like Gopis of Vraja, who would protest to Krishna not to play the sweet music on his flute, for it attracted them to Him and His Raas Lila with such great intensity that they used to forget their homes and husbands, these workers would also protest: "O my Swamiji, do not come to us when we are working, for while talking to you our work stops and the supervising swami rebukes us afterwards." With such intensity of love, Swami Vivekananda would attract these poor laborers.

One day Swamiji had a desire to feed these workers. Accordingly, he made arrangements for their lunch. At his orders, bread, curry, sweets, and curds etc. were arranged for the Santhals. Sitting before the Swami, all of them relished the sumptuous food. One Keshta said: "O Swami, whence have you got such a thing! We never tasted anything like this." Feeding them to their heart's content, Swami Vivekananda said, "You are Narayana, God manifest; today I have offered food to Narayana."

Turning to the disciple, the Swami said: "I found them the veritable embodiment of God - such simplicity, such sincere guileless love I have seen nowhere else." And later addressing the sannyasins of the Math, Swami Vivekananda had said: "Can you mitigate their misery a little! Otherwise, of what good is the wearing of the Gerrua (ochre) robe? Sacrifice of everything for the good of others is real sannyasa..." "Seeing the poor people of our country starving for food, a desire comes to my mind to overthrow all ceremonial worship and learning, and go around from place to place to serve these poor and afflicted..."

faith

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:50:00 +0000

Without faith, nothing is impossible With it, nothing is impossible

Forgive

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:49:00 +0000

As long as we do not forgive others, they occupy rent free space in our mind.

Be silent

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:26:00 +0000

Be silent in two situations:
When u feel one can't understand ur feelings from ur words
And when one can understand u without any word

Today's facts of life

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:24:00 +0000

Big house but small family
More degrees but less common sense
Advanced medicine but poor health
Touched moon but neighbour untouched
High income but less peace of mind
High IQ but less emotions
Good knowledge but less wisdom &
Lot of humans but less humanity

comfort zone

noreply@blogger.com (gm) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:20:00 +0000

Everything u want in Life is waiting for u outside ur Comfort zone n inside ur Effort Zone. Just Make a