Thoughtful Words (Part II)

Relax..and read this slowly..

I Believe....
That you can keep going long after
you think you can't.

I Believe....
That we are responsible for what
We do, no matter how we feel.

I Believe...
That either you control your attitude
or it controls you.

I Believe....
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done
when it needs to be done,
regardless of the consequences.

I Believe....
That my best friend and I can do anything or nothing
and still have the best time..

I Believe....
That sometimes the people you expect to kick you
when you'redown will be the ones to help you get back up.

I Believe...
That sometimes when I'm angry
I have the right to be angry, but that
doesn't give me the right

to be cruel.

I Believe...
That maturity has more to do with

what types of experiences you've had And what you've learned from them

and less to do with

how many birthdays you've celebrated.

For Part I of this post click here

 

 

Scales of Measurement

The picture below captures the comparison of various measurement scales used by US and rest of the world  beautifully in a pictorial representation and is self explanatory...

Paraprosdokians

A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. 

Winston Churchill was a great fan of these. Here is one from his many..

"You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing — after they have tried everything else." —Winston Churchill
Here are some more interesting ones...

1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.

3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left..

7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

10. Buses stop in bus stations. Trains stop in train stations. On my desk is a work station.

11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.

12. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'

13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.

17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

19. I sleep eight hours a day and at least ten at night

20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.

21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.

22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.

23. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

24.I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.

25.Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others,  whenever they go.

Thoughful Words...(Part I)

Relax...and read this slowly...

I Believe...
That just because two people argue,
It doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
It doesn't mean they do love each other.

I Believe...
That we don't have to change friends if
We understand that friends change.

I Believe....
That no matter how good a friend is,
they're going to hurt you,
every once in a while
and you must forgive them for that.

I Believe.....
That true friendship continues to grow,
even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.

I Believe...
That you can do something in an instant
That will give you heartache for life.

I Believe....
That it's taking me a long time
To become the person I want to be.

I Believe...
That you should always leave loved ones with Loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.

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Thoughtful Words - Part II (Please Click here)

Some Great Tweets !!

·         Any chance of Rahul Gandhi entering the cabinet? Isn’t it time Sonia did some beta testing?
 

·         Maybe Yeddy could be sent to Kashmir. In a few years, all the land will belong to his family, and all problems will be solved.
 

·         Business Idea: Face book Holidays. Where you don’t really go anywhere, but we create lots of photos for you to share.
 

·         100 phones tapped each day per operator. Finally we have a government that listens to us.
 

·          Vote for Baba Ramdev. He’ll be the PM who can help you make your ends meet. Your head and toe, that is. 

·         Mayawati, Jayalalitha & Mamata should now form an alliance. They can call it Behenji-Amma-Didi. Or BAD, for short.  

·         Kalmadi’s aide is in jail. Raja’s aide is dead. Satish Sharma denies ever having an aide. India seems quite serious about eradicating Aides.  

·         Police Manual: if it’s one guy, take a bribe. If it’s a couple, harass. If it’s a bunch of people, lathi charge. If it’s a mob, disappear. 

·         According to Census 2011, there are 940 females for every 1000 males in India. Those 60 unfortunate men join the Ram Sena, I guess. 

·         Dear Baba Ramdev, we can’t ban 1000 & 500 rupee notes. We are a secular country. So we need to respect all denominations. 

·         Some days, Digvijay Singh makes no sense. Other days, he is silent. 

·         Two weapons against corruption: Lokpal and Chappal. 

·         A documentary on Air India’s planes – Saare Zameen Par. 

·         I really don’t understand why people consider alcohol to be a problem. Chemically speaking, it’s a solution. 

·         Since 1977, West Bengal has been crawling along at approximately 0.00000000001 kmph. They’ve just covered 3 CMs in 34 years. 

·         If P&G buys Unilever, the unified entity can be called Procter and Gamble and Lever. Abbreviated to PaGaL.

·         Gandhi would have been a great bowler. He could spin as well as fast. 

·         Baba Ramdev is going to create an army with a headcount of 11,000. Or a leg-count of 22,000. Depending on which side is up. 

·         Three generations of Bachchans – BigB, WannaB, and now BayB. 

·         25-paise coins to go off circulation from Jun 30. The govt feels they can’t handle one Anna, so there’s no need for four. 

·         Every night families in rural U.P. must be shuddering in anticipation of Rahul Gandhi piling on to their dinner and whacking their charpai. 

·         I think Manmohan should get VVS Laxman into the cabinet. The UPA is in major trouble in its second innings. 

·         Kalmadi: So what are you here for?
Anna: Jan Lokpal bill. And you?
Kalmadi: Er… video bill, sponsorship bill, catering bill, etc. 

·         All MPs to get iPads. Awesome. As Om Puri would say, from anPad to iPad in 3 days. 

·         It’s been a pretty decent tour for India. We beat three teams – Sussex, Kent & Leicestershire. And lost to only one – England. 

·         The word “Engineer” is derived from “Anjaneyar” (or Hanuman), who built a bridge and didn’t hang around with girls. 

·         Bangalore may have a nice past. And a great future. But there’s no current. 

·         Infosys: More profits means great quarter.  UB: More quarters means great profit. 

·         BJP guy gives 500 rupee notes to journalists for +ve Rath Yatra coverage. He must have heard that a good reporter always takes notes. 

·         Anna Hazare breaks vow of silence. So Manmohan Singh wins this one. 

·         Think of the tiger. Think of hockey. Now you get it? The real problem with the rupee is that it is the national currency of India. 

·         PM says India and China are good friends. Of course we are. We have so much in common. Like Arunachal Pradesh. 

·         What? Russia has banned the Gita? We should immediately retaliate by banning “Problems in General Physics” by Irodov.

Cargo Cult in Democracy

Read this excellent article which first explains the term "Cargo Cult" and then goes on to relate it to the Indian Democracy and where it is headed.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859), the French political thinker and historian and author of the masterwork Democracy in America, asserted that “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilisations has been 200 years.”

Impossible

Impossible is just a big word

thrown around by small men

who find it easier to live the world

they’ve been given

than to explore the power

they have to change it.

 

Impossible is not a fact.

It’s an opinion.

Best Medicine For Humans

Once a wise Physician said, the best medicine for humans is "CARE & LOVE".

 

Someone asked, if it doesn't work?

 

He smiled and answered "INCREASE THE DOSE" !

Inside and Outside

The following is an excerpt from Dr. Wayne Dyer’s video: 

How To Be A No-Limit Person

“When you squeeze an orange, nothing will ever come out of it except orange juice.  It doesn’t matter who squeezes it – a child, an adult, a professional, a blind person – it likewise doesn’t matter what time you squeeze it – noon, morning, or when you have a period, or when you’re sick …whenever you squeeze an orange, the only thing that will come out is what’s inside.

 

The same principle applies to us.  Someone squeezes you (that is, someone puts pressure on you, says something about you that you don’t like,and out of you comes hatred, anger, fear, stress, tension … why? Is it because of your boss or your mother or your children? ... what comes out of you when someone squeezes you always is what’s inside.  This is the vital principle of being a no-limit person.

 

If you have any hatred in your heart for anyone in  this world or anger or fear, it has nothing to do with the rest of the world.  It only has to do with what you put inside  And how does it get there inside of you? AS YOU THINK. Only as you think.”

 

Lesson of Time

When a bird is alive it eats ants, yet when it dies, the ants eat it. 
Circumstances can change at any time and the tables usually turn over a period of time. 


Do not oppress, despise or hurt anyone during your lifetime. 
You may be powerful today but remember, time is more powerful that you! 


Just like one tree makes a million match sticks, 
yet when the time comes then only a single match is needed to burn a million trees.

No Matter What, You Gotta Run !

Every morning in Africa, 

a gazelle wakes up, 

it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or 

it will be killed. 

Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. 

It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. 

Moral: 

It doesn't matter 

Whether you're the lion or a gazelle

When the sun comes up, 

You'd better be running.” 

 -Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE (born 23 March 1929) is an English former athlete best known for running the first mile in less than 4 minutes.

Why Do Old Books Smell?

Teen Creed

Don't Let your parents down,

They brought you up.

Be humble enough to obey,

You may give orders someday.

At the first moment,

Turn away from unclear thinking.

Avoid following the crowd,

Be an engine not a caboose.

Choose companions with care,

You become what they are.

Be master of your habits,

Or they will master you.

Don't be a show-off when you drive,

Drive with safety and arrive.

Guard your thoughts,

What you think you are.

Think Positive !

American mathematical scientist George Dantzig narrates a very interesting true story.


"I was a mathematics graduate student at the University of California , Berkeley. Arriving late to class as usual, I quickly copied the two math problems from the blackboard, assuming they were the homework assignment. When I sat down to work on them that evening, I found them to be the most difficult problems my professor had ever assigned. Night after night I worked ,trying first to solve one then the other with no success. But I kept at it."Several days later, I made a breakthrough and solved both problems.


I took the homework to class the next day. The professor told me to leave it on his desk. It was piled so high with papers that I was concerned my homework would get lost in the clutter.
Reluctantly, I dropped it off and went on my way.


"Six weeks later, on a Sunday morning, I was awakened by a pounding on the door. I was startled to see it was my professor. 'George!George! he was shouting, 'You solved them!' " 'Yes, of course,' I said. 'Wasn't I supposed to?' The professor explained that the two problems on the blackboard were not homework; they were two famous outstanding problems that leading mathematicians so far had not been able to solve. He could hardly believe that in only a few days I had solved them both. "If someone had told me that they were famous unsolved problems, I probably wouldn't have even tried to solve them."


It goes to show the power of positive thinking.


Magic of positive thinking... In a perfect world, if nobody was there to tell you that you couldn't do something, your mind wouldn't know that and so therefore, it would accomplish and solve everything thrown its way. Since we don't live in a perfect world, all it means is we need to block out the negatives that are thrown our way so we could resolve and achieve anything and everything we set our minds to.

Reign Your Temper !

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. 


Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.


Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. 


The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say "I'm sorry", the wound is still there.  

A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

What Motivates Us?

Found this video very engaging and the message is delivered via drawings on the board and I must say that Dan Pink is really good at giving shape to his words. Watch it to believe it and share if you liked it.

The Law of Garbage Trucks

The Law of the Garbage Truck™ is a philosophy and strategy created by David J. Pollay, that allows people to take control of their lives. Millions around the world have already embraced the message of The Law.

In the words of David, “The Law of the Garbage Truck™ was sparked by an experience I had in a taxicab almost twenty years ago. Over the years I developed the insight I gained that day into a life philosophy and strategy, and named it “The Law of the Garbage Truck

How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you’re the Terminator, you’re probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s important in your life.

 

Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. And I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here’s what happened.

I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, the car skidded, the tires squealed, and at the very last moment our car stopped just one inch from the other car’s back-end

I couldn’t believe it. But then I couldn’t believe what happened next. The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. How do I know? Ask any New Yorker, some words in New York come with a special face. And he even threw in a one finger salute! I couldn’t believe it!

But then here’s what really blew me away. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that!? This guy could have killed us!” And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck™.” He said:

"Many people are like garbage trucks. 

They run around full of garbage, 

full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. 

As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. 

And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you.

 

So when someone wants to dump on you, 

don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, 

wish them well, and move on. 

Believe me. You’ll be happier."

So I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the street? It was then that I said, “I don’t want their garbage and I’m not going to spread it anymore.”

 

The odds are against you when a Garbage Truck comes your way. But when you follow The Law of the Garbage Truck™, you take back control of your life. You make room for the good by letting go of the bad.