9 posts tagged “arunoday”

If truth doesn't save us, what does it say about us? -- Lois McMaster Bujold

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. -- Anonymous

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here. --Payne Stewart

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprises. -- Alice Walker

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. -- Abraham Lincoln

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. -- Malcolm Forbes

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self fulfilling prophecy. -- Brian Tracy

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourself awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. -- Henry David Thoreau

Natural ability without education has more often attained glory and virtue than education without natural ability. -- Cicero

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

There is not end to what we can achieve - provided we don't mind who gets the credit.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all they have.

The greatest risk you can take in life is to risk nothing.

Following happiness is like chasing the wind or clutching the shadow.

Happy is the person who can endure the highest and lowest fortune.

* Prayer is holding my mind what you desire, without adding desire to it. -- David R. Hawkins
* Success is the ability to get along with people, ahead of others.
* The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscape; but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
* Leaders perform for results, not for recognition.
* We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. -- Albert Einstein
* Be teachable. You don't know everything.
* Trees are earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. -- Rabindranath Tagore
* The only time you realize you have reputation is when you fail to live up to it.
* Death is but an aspect of life and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. -- Annie Besant
* The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
* Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -- Confucius
* It is better to lose on your terms that win on someone else's terms.
* Time will explain it all. He is a talker and needs no questioning  before he speaks. -- Euripides
* When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Any dead man can walk out his own grave, only if he is born to a virgin woman. -- arunoday

* The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them into art.

* Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -- Andre Gide

* One of the rarest things a person does is to do one's best.

* I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. -- Socrates

* Success is the result of good judgement; good judgement is a result of experience.

* The pssession of knolwdge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. -- Anais Nin

* The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

*  Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. -- Jalal-ud-din- Rumi

* A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

* Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -- Winston Churchills

* The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all the person who argues with him.

* I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. -- Ray Charles

* The contemporaray form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. -- Simone Well

* The intuitive mind is a scared gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. -- Albert Einstein

Today is Sep 21, 2008. Yesterday someone told me to see the TV urgently as there was a huge blast at the Marriot hotel in Pakistan. I said 'no thanks' I am fine without seeing it. I see them all the time. There was going to be nothing new in watching burnt cars, bleeding bodies and cracked buildings. It was not because I was being cynical, but just being practical to the realities of new life. I have just seen the blasts in Delhi and then police action a few days later. Blasts and bullets do not pull me to the news channels any more. The world has changed drastically and this change is for ever. I have changed. I don't care if people are dying, if trains are being ripped apart, if tall buildings are folding up like pack of cards. This is life now; new realities of life. I have no idea if these ideal 'quotes' about love, compassion and honesty make any dent in the human psyche. Soon we all will forget all of it. They will soon seem like a strange combination of words put together. But until that happens, let me copy them from here and there and reproduce them.

* Knowledge leads you to light, imagination lets you grow.

* It is easy to dodge a spear that comes from front of you but hard to avoid and arrow shot from behind. -- Chinese proverb

* Focus on making things better not bitter.

* There is one love that says, 'I love you because I need you' and another one says, 'I need you because I love you.' -- M K Gandhi

* Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. -- Khalil Gibran

* Common sense is instinct, but a large part of it is genius.

* Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives since they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties. -- Henry David Thoreau

* The secret of success is knowing who to blame for your failures.

* When you are content to be simply yourself and don't cpmpare or compete, everybody will respect you.

* A lie can travel half way around the earth while the truth is putting on its shoes.

* People having noble thoughts with them are never alone.

* Chose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. -- Confucius

Sunday, September 14, 2008

* Believe nothing, no matter what I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense. -- Buddha

* The most imaginative people are the most redulous, for them everything is possible.

* I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. -- Dan Brown

* I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love. -- Richard Bach

* If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

* All you can learn is what your inward life is and try to stay loyal to that. -- Joseph Campbell

* Moves should be taken to ensure, there was something left to hand on to future generations. -- Prince Charles

* Never explain, your friends don't need it and your enemies will not believe you.

* Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? -- Carlos Castaneda

* It is the beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

* We have to try to get rid of the notion of time. -- Paulo Coelho

* The ancien scholars studied for their wo improvement. Modern scholars study to impress others. -- Confucius

* The foolish man seeks happiness in the dustance; the wise grows it under his feet.

* ...this Olympic gold is not going to change my life much. All I hope for is that it inspires my fellow athletes to repeat this feat over and over. -- Abhinav Bindra

* When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

* People living deeply, have no fear of death. -- Anais Nin
* The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function and spiritual in tendency. -- Margaret Fuller
* That is happiness to be dissolved into something completely great. -- Willa Cather
* Whenever we we may come alive. that is the area in which we are spiritual. -- David Steindl-Rast
* Everything is possible for the person who believes. -- Adlin Sinclair
* Rudeness is week man's imitation of strength.
* If you want to stand out; don't be different, be outstanding.
* The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
* Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
* The truth is more important than the facts.
* Ultimately everyone dies due to over-doze of life, nothing else. -- Arunoday Sharma
* If you want the world to look red, wear red glasses; than try painting it! -- Arunoday Sharma

* The search for happiness is the chief source of unhappiness.

* If you are trying to find God, don't look in noise and restlessnes. God is the friend of silence. -- Mother Teresa

* There are no menial jobs; only menial attitudes.

* You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. -- Adlin Sinclair

* Big jobs usualy go to men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

* On an alter of prejudice, we crucify oueself. -- Don Williams Jr

* The truth is more important than the facts.

* Religion is for the people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality for the ones who have been there. -- Bonnie Raitt

* You cannot petition the Lord with prayer. -- Jim Morrison

* Destiny is no matter of choice. It is a thing to be achieved.

* It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

* Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

* Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

* Non-cooperation with evil is as much our duty as is cooperation with good. -- Mahatma Gandhi
* From the saintly ans single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. -- Fredrich August von Hayek
* Human heart refuses to believe in a world without purpose. -- Immanuel Kant
* To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
* When it comes to freedom, we're but prisoners of our own desire. -- Eric Schaub
* Greatest pleasure in ife is to do what people say you cannot do.
* Liberty is never off limits; it spreads whenever it can capture the imagination of men. -- E B White
* Be faithful to small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
* The highest destiny of individual is to serve rather to rule. -- Albert Einstein
* You always pass failure on way to success.
* I am ready to meet my maker; but whether he is prepared for the ordeal is another matter. -- Winston Churchill
* The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
* Every human being has an attendant spirit. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. -- Lydia M Child
* Moral courage is more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
* God does not require uniformity of religion. -- Roger William

Arun Chadha is in town. he had called dharam from delhi to say that he wanted to shoot for 2 days and needed a sound recordist. dharam was surprised and asked him 'did you call arun? he is here only.' and he gave me the phone. frankly i was feeling odd that he forgot about me and that i too am a sound recordist, even after we were together for a whole month in jhansi. i screwed him on phone very well. i also decided that i will try to avoid doing his work and teach him a lesson. that was the instant reaction. later he sms'ed me about a program based on science. he asked me if i can do it right from 'concept note to script and make' it. i said 'yes' instantly for the offer, conditions may change as the dealings go further. after this i got a bit composed. i also decided to work on his 2 days shoot.
i am trying to change. i am watching myself, my thoughts and my actions. i think i am better reigned now and not getting swayed by mood. i am also avoiding feeling offended. actually no one is trying offend any one.
i am meeting him in a few minutes to discuss his 2 days shoot and the science program that he has offered me. let us see. i will keep myself in control and keep in good humor. i must not show undue temper or resistance to anyone's ideas any more; especially if i am getting something out of him. i guess that is mean. actually the rule applies to everyone. NO BEING MEAN TO ANYONE ANY MORE.
Hmmm...