Sunday, November 22, 2009

30 second Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola)

30 second Speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola)

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.

You name them –
1.    Work
2.    Family
3.    Health
4.    Friends
5.    Spirit

And you're keeping all of these in the Air.

You will soon understand that work is a RUBBER BALL. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of GLASS.
 
If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered.

They will never be the same. You must understand that and make every effort for it.
 
Cheers !!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

You must love the process of 'trying' to be successful

A couple of interesting thoughts from Peter Bregman’s original post: How Not Achieving Something Is the Key to Achieving It

 

Most of our jobs hinge on repetition. That's how we become good at anything. The problem is we give up too soon because anything we do repetitively becomes boring.

 

Anyone can do anything. As long as three conditions exist:

·         You want to achieve it

·         You believe you can achieve it

·         You enjoy trying to achieve it

 

 

Saturday, November 7, 2009

For Friends...

The least that we can do for our friends, is to be generous with our time when they need us...
- Anonymous

Friday, November 6, 2009

Its easier not to take responsibility

It's interesting to see that people are much better at putting up with things that happen to them than they are at living with the consequences of a bad choice.

- From Seth Godin's Blog

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Experimenting the Experience

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience. 
William Ralph Inge

Thursday, October 1, 2009

The purpose determines the power

“I think people carrying on with their work just for money, name or out of plain curiosity have a greater chance of giving up when faced with a small adversity. If a scientist is at work for the benefit of humanity, then he will not give up. So we need a larger sense of purpose to be able to draw from a larger source of inner strength.”
The purpose determines the power.

- His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
(in an interview with Subroto Bagchi, in Zen Garden in Forbes India Magazine)

Monday, September 21, 2009

lonely overrated intelligence

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. 

It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”

 Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

What made Gandhi who he was..

Gandhi was generous in revealing the secret of the power that allowed him to influence millions and turn the tide of history:

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort or soul-force. Soulforce comes only through Gods grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust, he said.

- Shalini Singh in the Times of India on Sunday (Sept 13, 2009)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

See Randomness...

From Paul Graham's essay: 'See Randomness'

"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence."
---
A more general version of the above statement is an answer to the Greeks:
Don't see purpose where there isn't.
Or better still, the positive version:
See randomness.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Honesty & Integrity

Honesty is being truthful with others. Integrity is being truthful with ourselves.
- Clif Reichard, a sales consultant for Ball Corporation

Friday, August 7, 2009

All work and no play

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

-James Howell's Proverbs in English, Italian, French and Spanish (1659)


All work and no play makes jack($). And plenty of it.

-unknown 

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spiderman Quotes

Thanks prof for reminding me of these quotes-
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Some quotable quotes - SPIDERMAN

Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-man.
-Peter Parker (Spiderman 1)

We are who we choose to be.
- The Green Goblin (Spiderman 1)

Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside us, we always have a choice. My friend Harry taught me that. He chose to be the best of himself.
It's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what's right.
-Peter Parker (Spiderman 3)

Contradictions..

Richard Bach-

In life, there are no contradictions.
If you find a contradiction, check your basic premise.
You will find it was wrong in some way..

Thursday, July 23, 2009

HARRY POTTER SERIES!!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Dumbledore: It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself


Only a person who wanted to find the Stone - find it, but not use it - would be able to get it. That is one of my more brilliant ideas. And between you and me, that is saying something. 


It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

Gilderoy Lockhart
Fame is a fickle friend Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince 


Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
 

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
 
 
 
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
 
 
 
 

Sunday, July 19, 2009

!!PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS!!

(voice-over) It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?

(voice-over) This part of my life... this part right here? This part is called "being happy".


-- Christopher Gardner in the pursuit of Happyness
Religion is for those who are scared of hell.
Spirituality is for those who've been there.
- Bonnie Raitt

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

About Fear and Strength


Timo Cruz character says "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Sir I just wanna say thank you...you saved my life." to his coach.

-from movie "Coach Carter"
----This quote is based on Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson

Sunday, June 28, 2009

LIKE A CHILD AT PLAY

" The idea of true maturity is to attain seriousness of a child at play"

.....

Avoid obvious mistakes, do not follow the obvious successes.

Friday, June 26, 2009

.....

"Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach

"Talk does not cook rice."
- Chinese Proverb

"He who has no fire within himself cannot warm others."
- Swiss German Proverb

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives," said Abraham Lincoln. "I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

HUMOR

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing -William James

INTELLECTUAL

“An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself” Albert Camus

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual” Oscar Wilde

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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.” - Christopher Morley

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Keep safe distance...

" Good fences make better neighbours. "
- American Proverb

Friday, May 22, 2009

Maturity

“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate”

Monday, May 18, 2009

Who are you?

Very interesting thought:

You are the average of 5 people with whom you spend most of your time!


--
Cheers!
Siddharth 'PV'

http://siddharthpv.blogspot.com/

Thursday, May 7, 2009

People don't do things for you or against you, they do things for themselves - it's fortune, good or bad, to be in the way
- Courtesy Sreeja
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Cheers!
Siddharth 'PV'

http://siddharthpv.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Decision Making

More time doesn't lead to better decisions. It only leads to anxiety.

What enables better choices is better information.

So it makes no sense to postpone a decision - unless you are going to
get BETTER INFORMATION in the meantime.

Rather, just go ahead and make the choice.

--
Cheers!
Siddharth 'PV'

http://siddharthpv.blogspot.com/

Monday, April 20, 2009

Basics of Problem Solving - Identify the problem correctly

The first step to solving any problem is - identify your problem correctly.
The moment you get that right, your problem - solving efforts will automatically get aligned in the right way.

Thanks to Ravi for bringing up this thought.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

!!LUCK BY CHANCE!!

Luck is what happens when preparations meet Opportunity"

Monday, April 6, 2009

And those who were seen dancing were
thought to be insane by those who could
not hear the music. - Friedrich
Nietzsche

Sunday, April 5, 2009

This ones dedicated to a close friend who just proved that the quote does do wonders....
here goes his motto.................

Get what you love
Or
You will be forced to love what ever you get
Every morning in Africa,
a Gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a Lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle...
when the sun comes up,
you'd better be running.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Harsha Bhogle's 1 liners...

1. This was in a match btw india and sa.. umpire rudi kuertzen caught on camera sporting a rare smile. harsha commented.... *"last time rudi kuerzten smiled there was peace in west asia"

2. This is again from the natwest trophy final..When yuvraj got out at a very crucial stage..harsha's one liner.. "*Yuvraj singh will realize that this will be his longest walk bak to the pavillion*"

3. When Sachin once got out to a lollypop offspinner (I guess it was Michael Vaughn) in '02.He wonderfully said, *" Oh what a shame. It was reminiscent of a soldier who survived the war when all the bullets were flying by his nose and then got run over by a bicycle in his native town*."

4. ind vs aus 2000 icc knockout champioship played in kenya. (yuvi's debut)Sachin was smasing all aussie bowlers, and then he hit a superb off drive off lee.
harsha : "*this innings by tendulkar has been a beautiful garden, the last shot being the most beautiful flower in it*"

5. ind vs nzl. (in nzl 2002-2003) sehwag had MANY lucky escapes. when he was dropped once again.
harsha : "*its been that kind of a day. today sehwag can walk blindfolded across a busy highway and not get runover*."

6. Natwest Final:During Naser Hussain's mistimed hits/top edges on his way to his maiden hundred "*Naser Hussain is trying desperately hard to find innovative ways
of getting himself out"*

7.in the same match... "*if you are not watching this segment of play, don't ever call yourself a cricket lover anymore. you are watching cricket of a very high order here".*

8.Here's n old one...at perth Adam Gilchrist took a blinder and he described Gilly's dive thus, " ...*some of the sea-gulls flying here are going to get a complex."*

9. when tendulkar got a hundred he said *touch of Class & stamp of Authority*"

10.recently in india's tour of south africa...he blurted out suddenly after sreesanth's antiques with the bat and hips..." *dis is the funniest thing u'll ever watch on a cricket field"...!!*

11. When Smith dropped Sachin in the 2nd Test *Graeme Smith would be hoping that the world under his feet opens up & he would find a crevice large enough for him to slip through....*

12. After india lost the recent test series in SA *India lost the series because they surprised themselves by winning the 1st test . A win should never be a surprise*.

13. After Anil Kumble scored his maiden Ton...this is what our great man
had to say..."*This is the most romantic moment in Indian Cricket....."*

14. "*The last time Billy gave lbw , Berlin wall was not there , there was peace in Afganistan,..................."*

15. In a match between Aus n SL , Harsha said to Ian Chappell , " *I am sure you'll never become a lawyer , I understand everything you say "* Ian Chappell had no counter for this.
*
16.** *Harsha was hosting the ICC Awards before the T20 World Cup and he called on Jonty Rhodes to present an award.So as Jonty began climbing down the stairs, Harsha exclaimed, *''it's pretty unusual to see Jonty walk down the stairs, I thought he might slide down them !"*

17. when the wickets were falling in a heap in the T20 match...
* THIS SERIES IS SPONSERED BY KFC AND THE WICKETS ARE FALLING FASTER THAN THEIR (KFC's) DELIVERIES....*
*
18.** *when Gambhr was dropped twice on consecutive deliveries, - "*We should conduct a dream job in Australia & the winner will get to stand in the slip region!!!!!!"*
*
19.** *When Kumble and Ishant were batting, Hussey dropped a catch of Ishant off the bowling of Johnson and Harsha exclaimed,"*It's autumn in Adelaide.It's the time when leaves change their colour and they start dropping.Here, as well the catches are dropping..".*

20. In a match, dravid left a ball alone while batting. To this gavaskar,who was commenting alongside harsha was very impressed by the way he left the ball. He went on appreciating that for a minute or so. After this harsha's comment was, "*Sunny, you nearly got an orgasm of happiness,didn't u!"* & then both burst out into laughter!*

21.** *dhoni is battin with anil kumble.. dhoni calls for a tight single,n harsha has this to say," *dhoni scrambles for a single n causes anil kumble n all of his 37 yrs to rush to the other end.."*

22. after shaun tait did not live up to the hype Cricket Australia created around him, Ponting took him off the attack.
harsha, in his own inimitable style:'shaun tait should go up to ponting and say "*hello mr ponting, my name is shaun tait, and i am supposed to take 45 wickets in this test match*"

23. HB was analysing the innings of laxman...laxman made a crucial 79 in the second innings.
HB said something like- *" aussies must be feeling that wenever we are on the verge of 17th,this man(laxman) comes in between!"*

24.** *RP SIngh walked in but it was Laxman on strike. So the Aussies wanted him to take a single and get RP on strike... so they spread out the field completely, with only the keeper, one slip and one gully inside the 30 yard circle..
That's when Harsha says .. *"now suddenly, Don Bradman is batting out there in the middle... "*

25. Seeing the flock of seagulls flying across the pitch Harsha tells Wasim
Akram : " *As you would say in Punjabi... kee gull hai? sea gull hai!!!"*

26. when michael clarke was caught at slip off kumble , he was still watin 4 da decision , over this harsha said, " i think he is waitin for tomorrow's
newspaper to declare him out"

27. Yuvraj hit the long six off brett lee went outside the stadium in durban
*'are there people working late in the office there....... we want the ball
back'*

27. in t-20 gayle hit a monstrous six but but fell just short of the golf course outside the stadium
harsha: "*wat a poor shot just misses the golf course*"

28. "*if i cannot be tendulkar then tendulkar can also not be me*"

29. the palyers told their favourite shots while coming on to bat....
Collingwood said "a little nurdle of the pads"
and Pietersen said blocking the ball....
Harsha commented "*the next thing they'll say is that their favourite shot is to leave the ball alone"*

30. what an introduction to India Australia semifinal: "*This is a battle between unstoppable force against immovable object*"

Sunday, March 29, 2009

'The Bucket List'

Some of the best dialogues from the 'The Bucket List' -

Carter Chambers
: You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you

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Edward Cole: I envy people who have faith, I just can't get my head around it.
Carter Chambers: Maybe because your head's in the way.

- - - - -

Edward Cole: Somewhere, some lucky guy's having a heart attack.

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Carter Chambers: Edward Perryman Cole died in May. It was a Sunday in the afternoon and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. He was 81 years old. Even now, I can't claim to understand the measure of a life, but I can tell you this: I know that when he died, his eyes were closed and his heart was open, and I'm pretty sure he was happy with his final resting place because he was buried on the mountain, and that was against the law.

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Edward Cole: Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world.
Carter Chambers: How are you going to do that?
Edward Cole: Volume!

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Relationships

Trivial relationships - either personal or professional, never work.

If you are not adding any value to the opposite party in the
relationship, it is bound to fail.

When, is just a matter of time.

- Srinivasan Alagu

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Romantic one... for creative men.. an inspiration of sort

"She laughs at my dreams and I dream of her laughter"

SIDHUISMS

A collection of famous quotes by Navjot Singh commentary -



1. That ball went so high it could have got an airhostess down with it.



2. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an

incoming train which will run them over.



3. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.



4. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway

sent him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies

at Barbados. "Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."



5. Sri Lankan score is running like an Indian taximeter.


7. Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!



8. He is like Indian three-wheeler, which will suck a lot of diesel but

cannot go beyond 30!



9. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend,

that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings!



10. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.



11. The ball whizzes past like a bumble bee and the Indians are in the sea.



12. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.



13. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.



14. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!



15. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at

Rajendra Talkies in Patiala. One falls and everything else falls!



16. Indian team without Sachin is like giving a Kiss without a Squeeze.



17. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.



18. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be

given a free transfer to Manchester United.



19. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.



20. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.



21. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire, ruled

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at Port of Spain, T&T.

"Eddie Nichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two

hands."



22. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.



23. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.



24. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.



25. The cat with gloves catches no mice.



26. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.



27. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.



28. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.



29. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the

same reason.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom" - Marilyn Ferguson

Friday, February 20, 2009

ONE GOOD ONE!!

"A dead man is less dangerous to a non moving stone in the realm of world" - Anonymous

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Quotes

" And when the War ends the butterfly will still be beautiful " - Ruskin Bond

“You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.”-William D. Tammeus


The genesis of 'So Spake the Wise Men'

I have my thoughts,
Shaped by my set of ínfluences',
I view things through my lens of life,
Painted by my share of experiences
But I am sure,
I can further improve my competencies,
If I discuss my thoughts,
With my many acquaintances...

And this brings us to the basic objective of this blog.
This is my way of sharing those thoughts that I think are worth living life by.
I truly believe that (for ideation atleast) more heads make for better discussions. And these topics are truly worth discussing.
I look forward to your contributions and comments on the same.