The conviction I nurture in my writings is well sustained by the splendor of poetry, the beauty of brevity and, most importantly, by the power of imagination.
The gravity and seriousness of a situation often makes giants out of ordinary men.
Life is never a bed of roses. Sometimes we encounter misfortunes that can crumble destinies. Ultimately it’s the fight we put up that makes life a swell adventure worth living.
A leader with a strong will might not move mountains but he can surely inspire a thousand more to do the same job – willingly.
A person might be miles ahead of you today just because of that one extra step he took when it mattered the most.
A man who never strays from the right path has no occasion for fear in life.
Most of us drift with the current; it’s only a few with a fiery purpose who fight the waves to realize their goal.
Some start their life at 20 and some at 60. It’s not when you started that matters, it’s the memory of how well you lived your life when you breathe your last that does.
Take responsibility; take ownership. It’s amazing to know what mistakes can teach if you claim them as your own.
The deeper you fall, the harder you gotta hit back.
Success in life can be attributed to three plain factors: Drive, Direction and Focus.
Strength of Character is greater than the combined competencies of mental and physical strengths.
Excellence is in your hands; perfection in the hands of excellence.
When you are fighting for the best you have to give it full throttle.
If religion means compassion, tolerance towards others’ religion is greater compassion.
Misfortunes seldom come alone. But it becomes a lot easier when you deal with them one-at-a-time.
Yesterday’s imagination is today’s reality; today’s imagination was yesterday’s impossibility. (So what is impossible today…you can guess the future of it.)
Take your imagination to work. You will relish the spectacle of innovativeness overpower the nerve-wrecking deadlines.
Think before you act, look before you leap. Actions done in a fit of rage, or for momentary pleasure, can lead to major disasters that you will repent for a life-time.
You are more obliged when your friend confides he trusts you than when he says he believes you. It means he holds his trust in you at a higher pedestal than his own beliefs.
Believe that your necessity is more demanding than anyone else’s; prove that your efforts are more intense than everyone else’s.
Values help us to stand firm on the ground when everything else around us is falling apart. They are the non-negotiable aspects and are vital to the fabric of our lives.
You should think ten steps ahead of the adversary and you shouldn’t let him know that.
No matter how busy you are, you should still be prepared to go head-on against what comes unexpected.
Appreciate people because they are doing their job. Play life by adjectives.
Expand your limits and be ready to go that extra mile. Live each day to its fullest.
Protest mediocrity. Strive for excellence.
Even your weakest adversary might catch you off-guard with the weapon of suddenness, and the effect can be more catastrophic than a planned attack from the most sophisticated enemy.
Be open to ideas and suggestions from all levels of the corporate hierarchy.
Familiarity breeds contempt; restraint breeds desire.
A man with a definite purpose and a clear goal is as unstoppable as the hands of time.
The charioteers of each generation conceive ideas that are unthinkable, make efforts that are unimaginable and show results that are undreamed of.
To conquer steeper heights you have to take risks; and when you take risks you should defend them well with a presence of mind.
A teacher who inspires is greater than the one who influences.
When a man of ambition marries he doesn’t start a family…he starts a legacy.
It’s important to leave the past behind but not the people who made the past possible.
Before we expect peace in the immediate environment, we should be at peace with our inner selves.
It’s but a tiny spark that starts the fire.
Beauty is only skin-deep, but the beauty of the heart touches and heals the most downtrodden of souls.
If dependency is a crime, the person who makes you dependent should be held guiltier.
Where you run in life determines the quality of your life. The brave run towards adversities, head-on, and the chicken-hearted run away from them.
The hesitant can be taught and the ignorant too, but sadly not the fiercely adamant.
Failure starts in the mind…but so does success.
Optimism can take you places but its perseverance that leads you to the destination.
Most self-help books suggest a recipe about how to achieve success, and it’s the bible of the genre that formulates how to keep it.
Expectations from others give you disappointment; expectations from yourself give you results.
To your efforts, the progress of your life is sequenced in a geometric progression.
Super-adaptability is the name of the game.
Achievers worry about what others think of them; super-achievers don’t worry…they analyze themselves, and change for the better.
Gone are the days when a man was judged by what he does; today’s yardstick goes by how well he does what he does. And at all times, the success factor is based on how much he likes what he does.
(Everything adds up. - anonymous)
There’s a very thin line between a crazy idea and a great achievement. And the distinction is defined by conviction.
Nothing is impossible; it’s only that things are less possible and more possible.
You are not prepared to fight the battle unless you fight the fear to face failure.
Arsenal sophistication won many battles, but its presence of mind that won the ultimate war.
The most complex problems can be resolved by adhering to one basic rule, ‘keep things simple’.
What is the science of studying the lives of successful people called? Getting there!
The best day is today; the best moment is now.
Nothing is a dead-end; it’s only that you are not looking around.
In spite of all the failures, in the end, you will be what you are worth.
Everything is dynamic; to keep up, change, or perish!
The world needs action. Are you game?
Business breeds competition, and an acute business sense helps you sustain it.
To ignore failures, and to consider them stepping-stones, is wisdom; to forget failures, as if they never happened, is foolishness.
Not all happy beginnings have happy endings, not all happy endings have happy beginnings. So keep the focus on, and never stop trying.
Good attitude complements good knowledge.
When there is conflict between your values and your beliefs choose the former. It’s simply a choice between ‘what you trust’ and ‘what you believe’.
‘Working under a manager’ can be productive, however ‘working with a manager’ will always help surpass targets.
There are some mile-stones that guide us along the path to success and others that define a turning-point; and there are a rare few that you can’t resist, but carry them with you to the last mile.
Trust, once lost, can never be regained. Life doesn’t always give a chance to start things all over again… with a clean slate.
The success of a hoarding is directly proportional to the number of accidents that happen in its precinct of visibility.
The truth sought through self-inquiry renders a clearer expression than all the worldly wisdom and scientific explanations imparted through education.
You are never out of options. A sense of inquiry helps you identify them, a sense of adventure helps you explore them, and common sense helps make the options workable.
There are four kinds of people. The relentless, who master perfection, the restless, who believe there is scope for improvement, the mindless, who give a damn about the argument, and the senseless, who wonder if there is an argument at all.
‘When to do what’ is a matter of timing, ‘how to do what’ is a matter of skill, ‘why to do what’ is a matter of commonsense, and in the end, commonsense prevails.
In a corporate environment, commonsense means business sense plus social sense. You cannot exclude the latter (social sense) out of the big picture because that (social sense) is the big picture.
In the end you can still make a difference. You either leap to your death with a fiery purpose, or drag your frame to the grave out of insolence.
It’s commonsense to look at both sides of a coin, but it’s disastrous to always stick to the negative.
When there is a contest between skill and will, crown ‘that’ what you can’t do without. There is no former without the latter.
‘Yes-men’ merely get you what you want, ‘why-men’ go a step beyond that, they make you realize why you want what you want, and thereby urge you raise the bar consistently.
Having goals and translating them into actions are two very different things. The purpose of goal setting will not be fulfilled unless you quantify the goals by definite time guidelines, and underline them with a fiery passion for execution.
Adopt change, to adapt to change.
If everyone is looking at one direction and you at the other, then firmly stand for that point of view. It is acceptable to defy the conventional outlook if you believe your vision can make a positive impact.
In any competition, 95% of the participants fail because they retreat midway; the 5%, who make it, succeed because they don’t turn their backs until the finish line.
Passion rubs off.
Despite all the theoretical trite and the hype rendered to terms like ‘teamwork’, ‘cooperation’, and ‘team building’, the issue of individual performance still boils down to the most fundamental driving factor- ‘what’s in it for me?’
When you take things beyond where they have been, you build value; when you take people beyond where they have been, you build trust.
Like formal communication, even the grapevine is vegetated with different kinds of species: the enthusiasts also called the expert transmitters, the ‘oh-so-it-happened’ sober mediocrities, and the ‘I-don’t-give-a-damn’ mavericks, who can appropriately be referred to as the ‘blind alleys’. Like in a chess game, one should be cautious when to use whom, to get what one wants.
There are two kinds of loners: the depressed, who are constantly worried about their loneliness, and the winners, who never have the time to worry about their solitude and readily buy into the hard rule that it is always lonely at the top.
The best alternative is often the unexplored.
Workable ideas bring change; best ideas bring a revolution.
The world is a classroom and the learning process is determined by three simple factors: observe, listen and do.
If all else fails, imagination can still lead to a new road with a fresh, promising perspective.
The eternal fire of enthusiasm and purpose echoes even from the deeply buried corridors of the dead.
There is no teacher like a failure. Embrace every experience with an open heart and every failure with an open mind.
Rip every complexity to the basics; simplify and be persistent in your attempt. The solutions will surface sooner or later.
Flexibility means emerging out of situations and adapting successfully to the new environment.
An ousted, dejected king, one small spider, an attitude called ‘can-do’, and the moral that hits point blank – never give up. After all these centuries the resultant spark still kindles and stirs mankind into action.
The ownership statement, ‘I am responsible’ should always speak before the evaluation statement, ‘I should have done better’.
To build a scientific wonder or to create a masterpiece might require a moment’s magical intervention of creativity, but to build trust is a lifelong commitment.
If we don’t respect time, the price of minutes lost will have to be repaid in the form of hours.
Study the nature of women, and you have learnt half the human nature.
Never fight failure with emotion…reason it out!
Read between the letters of the word ‘R.E.J.E.C.T.I.O.N’ very closely. It screams, ‘Try again, ever harder’.
To talk about others and to make fun of them is cakewalk; to learn about others and to develop a perspective is the most difficult.
Recollection is reconnection.
To take dreams beyond reality requires imagination, to take reality beyond dreams calls for extraordinary will and determination.
Rules of technocracy: to the system, by the system and for the system.
The biggest villain is inside us.
We asked them for clocks and they gave us racehorses.
Though the sight turns hazy due to the weariness of the journey, it’s the clarity of vision that leads a person to his destination.
It is important to know the value of your past, but it would be foolish to just hang to it and bask in the glory of your comfort zone.
A leader shouldn’t be emotional, he should be sensible.
Don’t work on something as if you don’t have an option, work on it as if you are dealing with the best available option.
Just because you have one doesn’t mean that you have to be one.
I don’t believe in God, I just believe in the strength I experience when I pretend there is one.
Religion is more about the disbelief in other religions than about the belief in one’s own religion.
It is an honor to die fighting, it is a greater honor to die giving your best.
The greatest wealth we have is time, and we need a great mind to handle it.
A noble heart complements a great mind.
An evil mind thinks, ‘If I have to go, I will take the world with me’; a noble heart thinks, ‘If I have to go, I will take the world’s misery with me’.
Meeting goals requires excellence, surpassing goals requires passion and setting standards requires a revolution.
Failure to achieve something is not defeat, blaming it on others is.
For the success of a society, it’s ethical men that matter; for the success of an economy, it’s money that matters; and for the combined success of both, it’s ethical men who make money that matter.
You can’t fight ignorance with plain education, for that you need education that teaches logic.
Every day when you wake up in the morning, you have to make a choice between two options that will decide the course of your day, they are: ‘today-is-the-day’ or ‘today-is-just-another-day’.
Science might not explain all superstitions, but never stop questioning.
When things don’t work your way, don’t change your environment. Instead, change your attitude first.
There might be a method in madness, but there, definitely, is no method in ignorance.
The only weapon to fight ignorance is inquisitiveness.
Everyone can be everything else, everyone can do everything else; there is no limit to possibility.
Success is not waiting for things to happen to us, it is about running after them to make them happen.
Living life is to never stop imagining the possibilities.
A person should be gutsy to cross the limits once in a while, but it’s the mark of a seasoned fool who always operates from beyond the limits.
How we live each day is by our own choice, and those choices will culminate to determine how we lead our lives ultimaltely.
Learning to handle failure constructively is more important than learning to achieve success.
If you believe in tomorrow it will give you hope, if you believe in today it will give you results, if you believe in ‘now’ it will give you the edge.
Beginnings might fail but the efforts should never falter.
When you give your 100%, you leave very little scope for luck to play foul.
When things fall apart, hope seems bleak and disorder goes on a rampage, don’t give it up. You can still make perfect sense out of all the chaos if you keep your mind in its own place.
A balanced mind will give the strength to take tough decisions, the courage to withstand the consequences and the confidence to emerge as the winner.
Some men go too far in search of the truth, but along the way they miss the most critical aspect, the search for what is right.
An enemy can be forgiven for his crimes, but never a friend for his betrayal.
Not all intelligent people are successful. Successful are those who possess average intelligence, but have a keen sense of timing to do the right thing at the right hour.
Respect the enemy to understand the game, respect the game to win over the enemy.
Living life without a strategy is like shooting an arrow in the dark. There might be a distant chance that the arrow hits the bull’s eye, but we certainly can’t take the risk of playing life merely by luck.
It’s personally damaging to bask in a comfort zone; however it’s disastrous make a comfort zone out of failure.
We are all born unequal, but the single, most important resource distributed equally among all of us to determine the course of our lives, is a 24-hour-day… because in the end, every second counts.
Taking control over life doesn’t happen overnight. It is a process. It is a becoming.
This is one leadership essential that will not be taught in any of the world’s premier B-schools, and it is strictly imparted only through active observation and practice – ‘street-smartness’.
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. But what really matters to the world is what happens during the game. (Inspired by an Italian proverb)
The best steel is made in the toughest furnaces.
A man's greatness is judged by the strength of his character, and that strength is in turn determined by how well he takes charge of his emotions.
The higher you go, the more it takes to be there.
It is incorrect to say, ' You have the power - seek it', because YOU ARE THE POWER - recognize it.
The 'becoming' is never an accident, it’s only by intention - good or bad, and so is the case with the 'unbecoming'.
Getting concerned is human nature, getting concerned about the 'right things' calls for the wisdom of the human nature.
Don’t wait for life to become exciting, make it exciting.
If you aim for the sky, you will at least land on the mountains. (inspired, I guess)
It’s a great attitude to see the light at the end of the tunnel; it’s a greater attitude to walk towards that light.
We take chances because life gives them, but life is not always generous at giving things away.
What you give is what you get…it’s always a full circle.
I don't want things to be perfect; I just want them to be right.
A lie might save your face for the moment, but the truth will pronounce your character for a life-time.
The power of love means the power to give.
Change is life; to adapt to change is power.
Great leaders talk softly but communicate loudly.
The urgency of a situation is, more often than not, what we make of it.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and the purity of thought stands at a pedestal above Godliness.
Nobody cares about 'who would have been’; people only talk about 'who is'.
Ignore the pain that you experience from other's progress, instead work on the pain that evolves from your decay.
There is no addiction as damaging as idleness.
If a thought could kill then wipe it off immediately, even the last traces, from your mind - because acting on that thought would mean 'genocide'.
If it is created it has to be destroyed, if it is destroyed, yet another, and still better, will be created; life doesn’t stop at zero, it starts there, and the cycle goes on.
You are never too young or never too old to do the right thing, to get hold of the turf you just be 'you'.
A tough mind never gives up on a tough task.
No cause, no order.
Nobody cares if you are perfect, people only remember imperfections. So be smart to nurture your saleable flaws.
There is a wafer-thin line between courage and recklessness, and for all practical purposes courage is defined as 'taking the initiative to understand the nature of fear', and recklessness means 'acting regardless'.
Don't ever blame the consequences for what you are. Remember that at every crucial juncture in life you had a choice, and you still do.
No world ever happened, each is a becoming; no era ever happened, each is a becoming; no greatness ever happened, each is a becoming.
A single, magnetic force holds together the power of a team. That unifying force is the 'power of one'.
One life and a deck of cards to each of us; how well you lead your life is all about how well you play the cards and place the bets.
It takes a rebel to defy the rules, but it takes a visionary to defy the rules and rewrite better ones.
Nobody cares about what you know, what matters is what you do with what you know.
Of all our abilities the most vital is our ability to resist temptation. (The real power is the power not to be influenced.)
The heroes who tread paths across impossible terrains are great; the conquerors who built such paths are greater.
The elite and the famous merely confirm with the masses, but it's the torchbearers who teach the masses to think differently and want radically.
You need a wandering mind to detect the imperfections in this world, and a focusing mind to work towards mending those imperfections. But over and above all, you need a shrewd mind to tune properly into each individual situation.
When you consider for others, consider the average; when you consider for yourself, push the limits.
It's an inspiring sight to watch the common man braced for the daily battle, it's even more stirring to watch him wage the real one.
A determined man, like a storm, is unstoppable, and his passion - wild and restless, like the eye of a storm.
At a practical level art is meant for its admirers, at an aesthetic level it’s a soul-searching experience for the artist.
The ears hear everything, but the mind listens only to what it wants to.
The courage that commands you to do is power, the courage that abstains you from doing is 'more' power.
