Sunday, May 18, 2008

Ever After

Its not about love. If he is to become king, he must learn to accept his responsibilities. Something cannot grow in the shadow of mighty oak, Francis, he needs sunlight.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Darling, nothing is final until you are dead.

A servant is not a thief, my Lord and those who are cannot help themselves.

If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and manners corrupted from infancy and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else to be concluded, Sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?

A country's character is defined by everyday's rustics, as you call them, they are the legs you stand on and that position demands respect.

You were born to a privilege and with that come specific obligations.

Choose wisely, Henri. Divorce is what they do in England.

The only throne I want her sitting on is the one I clean everyday.

Is everything just chance or everything as it is meant to be.

You cannot leave everything to fate, boy.

A life without love is no life at all.

How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe?

And while Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, the point Gentlemen is that they lived.

FISH (Contd.)

The risk of doing nothing is probably greater than the risk of acting.

Most of us are uncomfortable thinking of ourselves as artists...But each of us is an artist... With every choice every day, you are creating a unique work of art. Something that only you can do. The reason you were born into this world was to leave your own indelible mark on the world. This is your authenticity...Respect your creative urges... step out in faith...you will discover your choices are as authentic as you are. What is more, you will discover that your life is all it was meant to be: a joyous sonnet of thanksgiving.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Most people enjoy learning and growing, at any time in their life.

There is something I know about you that you may not even know about yourself. You have within you more resources of energy than have ever been tapped, more talent than has ever been exploited, more strength than has ever been tested, and more to give than you have ever given.

I have a lot of clocks to wind up, but first I need to wind up my own.

Focusing your attention on ways to make another person's day provides a constant flow of positive feelings.

When you are present with people you look right at them...just like being with your best friend.

Things won't get better until we choose to make them better.

The past is history,
The future is a mystery,
Today is a gift.
That is why we call it the present.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

FISH!! (contd.)

Without choosing your attitude the others are a waste of time.

When in doubt, get more data.

The needs of the organization and our needs as workers are same: Creativity, passion, flexibility, wholeheartedness...

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.

I don't believe that companies are necessarily prisons, but sometimes we make prisons of them by the way we choose to work there.

FISH!!

The big three are why we are here: salary, security and benefits.

We never see a customer, but if we make a mistake, the customer is upset and we get a lot of criticism. If we do our work well, no one notices.

Given the right conditions, any job can be dull.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is nota choice about the work itself.

We can choose the attitude we bring to work.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Quotes: GodFather III (contd.)

The mind suffers and the body cries out.

What is the point of confessing if I don't repent?

Power wears out those who have it.

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Quotes: GodFather III (contd.)

Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

The richest man is the one with powerful friends.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Blessed is the peacemaker for he can be called the child of God.

Quotes: GodFather III (contd.)

The new overthrows the old. It's natural.

Our true enemy has not yet shown his face.

A habit born of long contemplation of eternity.

The sicker you get the wiser you get. When I am dead, I will be really smart.

When they come, they will come at what you love.

Quotes: GodFather III

Friendship and money. Oil and water.

It seems in today's world, the power to absorb debt is greater than the power of forgiveness.

Don't overestimate the power of forgiveness.

I would burn in hell to keep you safe.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.

Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

Quotes: GodFather II

Try to think what people around you think. On that basis, anything is possible.

Put your friends close but your enemies closer.

The soldiers are paid to fight, the rebels aren't.

It's not easy to be a son.

I have learnt that I have the strength to change.

Nothing's impossible. If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anthing, it's that you can kill anyone.

I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out. Just my enemies. That's all.

Quotes: The GodFather

A man who cannot spend time with the family is not a real man.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Blood is a big expense.

All I want is truce.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Quotes: Original Sin

Trust me my friend. There is no such thing as love. Only misguided feelings and emotions.

How could you hate her so much if you do not still love her?

If there is one thing low within a man with cheated cards, its a man who uses a woman to do cheating for her.

No matter what is the price, you cannot walk away from love.

Quotes: Eragon

What many men seek is often under their nose. But for some the unknown is too hard to resist.

Without fear there is no courage.

Some friends can't be replaced. Luckily some friends don't have to be.

Quotes: An Inconvenient Truth (contd.)

It is difficult to get a man understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Doing the right thing moves us forward.

There are people who go from denial to despair without pausing in the intermediate step of actually doing something about the problem.

In America, political will is a renewable resource.

Quotes: An Inconvenient Truth (Contd.)

Its just human nature to take time to connect the dots. I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Doubt is the product since it is the best means of competing with the"body of fact" that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.

Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it.

Quotes: An Inconvenient Truth

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that ain't just so.

The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedients of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Quotes: Fracture

Knowledge is pain. I am used to that.