Quotes

Never change and always change! Trick is to know in which things and when!

Learn as if you were to die tomorrow. Live as if you were to live forever.

A mirror is to reflect yourself onto you and a magnet to attract goodness! If you don’t like the reflection change yourself, not the mirror!

The key is that you need to trust a loyal fast enough and a disloyal late enough!

When you're selective enough about whom you listen to, then who listens to you becomes irrelevant!

If you think that there can be a blockbuster movie on your life, then you must have had some hell of an amazingly wonderful life!

Multitasking is a myth. Our brain is essentially a serial processor! Multitasking just means switching between tasks faster and spending more time in switching/transition than on actual tasks.

You don't lose when people trash out to other people's mind with biases they have about others/you. In fact, you only win by not letting them trash into your own mind. What they do to others is their Karma!

The more I understand people, the more I fall in love with myself!

Choose your battles well! Never fight those battles which even if you win, you'll be seated next to people whom you don't admire!

You will never become rich enough if you keep on changing your lifestyle in proportion to what you earn. However you will become enough rich if you keep your lifestyle to same minimalist irrespective of what you earn.

Life is just an optimization problem – of your resources, time, energy, health. Except time, everyone has everything else in different amount!

Creativity has no limits. Just when we think that what else can be done in a particular field as it seems already saturated, not just the new things in the field get created but also new fields get created along!

Expertise and doing the same thing many years are two completely different things. You can definitely get expertise doing the things over and over but only up to a certain point. Beyond that it's just the repetition. Instead it's better to quickly achieve expertise and move on to next thing!

The more overrated environments you live in, the more 'under-rated' (as in low in capability) you become in absolute terms! Instead choose the absolute better/best, always!

Sometimes a small individual achievement involving 90% own individual efforts is more valuable and satisfactory than big collective achievement involving 90% others’ efforts!

Quantity creates Anxiety, Quality creates Enrichment.

Most useless asset is stupid ego/pride!

When opposition and jealousy are strongest you can be sure that you are on right track.

Do good to others, it may not return back. Do intentionally bad to others, it definitely does!

Every 'need' (except basic food, shelter, clothes for self only) can be proved to be a 'want' and every 'want' a 'need'. It's just that other peoples' needs are their wants and our wants are our needs ;)

Culture isn't present in the rituals people do as a mob/group, it's present in the honesty and integrity of individual persons in a group.

Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Anything I can, I let go of myself!

The more you try to become better version than others, more you become unhappy. The more you try to become better version of yourself, more you become happy. There will always be someone else better than you, but the better version of yourself will be unique!

No response/reaction is a response/reaction. It tells a lot about you depending on whether that is about right or wrong thing!

Decision making and good decision making are two entirely different abilities. Any fool can take decisions out of arrogance/show off that make others suffer!

You can't deceive a person and expect him/her to work for/with you. Of course trust can be broken, albeit just once! (or at max may be a couple of times if someone is still considerate enough, but never go beyond the limits!)

The problem with making your passion as your profession is that not everyone out there in your profession have passion as their profession!

To praise a work for motivation/confidence building and to praise a work for its quality as is are two entirely different things! Former is future/expectation oriented while latter is present/realistic oriented.

All that other people can tell/convince you is what/who are good for them (which one should never bother to debate upon). They possibly can't in theory convince you what's good for you without your consent!

There is a subtle difference between hearing and listening. I feel it's similar to the difference between mob mentality and individual intentional thinking!!!

Humble and respectful doesn't mean letting people do wrong to you. It just means letting people do right for themselves!

There is a similar difficulty in -- Optimizing all of the three factors like cost, quality and time in development of any product And Being best in the breadth as well as depth of your knowledge!

Nature does not require leadership. Yet everything is accomplished!

Way to defeat stupidity – Try opposing it in first place. Most probably it will increase in disproportionate size. Then stop opposing it altogether. It probably would be sufficiently stupid enough to destroy itself!

Basic hidden aim and result of unification is better control, superiority and enslavement of people (including those who support that). Basic aim and result of diversification is inclusiveness, individual empowerment and sustainable growth!

All the problem solving techniques have inherent assumption of dealing with honesty. There are no true problem solving techniques available for dishonesty. (It's like you can't wake up a person pretending to be sleeping!) May be that's why concepts like punishment or even God are being born to keep dishonesty in check!

Truly intelligent people are self learners. They are neither leaders and nor followers. In fact many good people like to follow them. But they are just indifferent about their following, they are more concerned about their learning!

Simplistic view (knowledge) and complex decisions (solutions) is never is good idea! It always has to be complex view (knowledge) and simplistic decisions (solutions)! However the disadvantage with latter is that it isn't showy enough to gather public attention and it's more difficult as well!

Happiness has nothing to do with -- your social status, things you own, travels you make and even people you surround with! It has everything to do with how well you know yourself and way you take everything!

People are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts!

Well, the world is becoming full of people who are following so called new era management "Science" -- If they say their opinion repeatedly in many ways, it not only makes that true but also makes that happen!

It's hard to define what happiness is. It's relatively simpler to know what unhappiness is! So best thing to do is to not do things that make you unhappy! 

How people treat you is their perspective and Karma, how you react is yours!

Good tools and people in control of fools is always destructive!

Nature, a friend of ours who has minimum expectations from us, hence minimum drama it creates yet it always goes along with us in our "Now" enchanting us with its varied forms!

Many situations on surface seem very different than what they actually are! Only inquisitive mind will understand those better!

Sometimes I'm dead sure, sometimes not! But I'm always dead sure when I'm what!

‘Rework' is only 'meaningful' if the new version is 'better' than previous version. And 'Work' is only 'meaningful' if one is contributing/is allowed to contribute in his/her best possible way!

You are free to make any decision. But you're not free from it's consequence. Life has a funny way of making you deal with what you make others go through!

Seeing people who try too hard to look good (not physically) to other people, I always think -- Things become complicated for yourself and others when you 'act' like a good person. Things are astonishingly simple when you're a good person. It may not immediately benefit you, but in long term Karma makes it's way !!!

Truth is always objective. If it's not, then it's not the Truth. Our perspectives may be contradictory or ambiguous because of our limitations of ability to know and accept the Truth!

If people start to take disadvantage of the kindness/benefit of doubt you have given them, show them their true worth!

Most people don't get kids' questions. I don't get grown ups' statements!

It's never about more things, neither more experiences nor more people! It's always about which ones! Quality empowers!

Sometimes our inability to convince others our point only proves our point!

People expect too much from others and too little from themselves.

You can worry or whine about/obsess over problems only if you've got small number of less severe problems, not if it's no problems or just too many! In former case you don't worry and in latter case you find solutions!

Happiness is feeling grateful that some things didn't work out the way you once wanted them and knowing that they don't matter anymore!

Comfort is more likely what we get used to than what's really comfortable!

What I have observed is that the people who follow traditions out of helplessness or need rather than their own wish are more keen on making others follow the same!

I'm happy there wasn't any "smart*" gadget while we were growing up, still we could create "smart" stuff ;)

I think time bound thoughts are good for execution/getting things done and lingering thoughts are good for brainstorming/deep thinking/creativity.

True character of a person is revealed when you disagree with them.

I don't expect/think that people will be fair to you just because you are fair to them. However, something always tells me that everything gets balanced on a much grander scale!

There is subtle difference between doing something because you like it and doing something to show it off to people/compete with people. Former generates content and latter anxiety. Beware of people trying to put you in anxiety generating position in unhealthy way! (A bit of anxiety is always good, not the excess)

You become the same person whom you look up to/admire. Always choose that one better than yourself, no matter what!

90% of people problems (hence problems affecting any progressive work) are created by people themselves, sometimes even the same ones who try to solve those!

When you find yourself in situation such that people are trying to block you from all four directions, then just ignore them and fly upwards!

Accepting and accommodating others while keeping superiority and power to yourself is subtly different than accepting, respecting, maintaining differences and yet working towards the benefit of each individual!

For any respectful relation, favors others ask from you should match favors you ask from others!

Some people do their job as favor to others and at the same time expecting others to do even favors for them as their job !!! 

True free spirited, independent individual is the one who is not wedded, obligated to any ideology or group whatsoever!

Truth of the matter is there is nothing as free social work/service. It’s just the nice sounding wrapper name around some hidden self-interest in some form either money, power, fame, fun/satisfaction, security, connection etc

You are the start and an end in itself!

Always remember people who respect and help you when you have nothing and are not jealous of you when you achieve success with efforts! They are rare to find!

Movies are a whole new world of perspectives and experiences at times much better than limited real world!

If you think you're missing onto some experience it's just that you're having some other experience in it's place that others aren't having! (JOMO)

I cannot hang on to past problems as there are always new more severe ones waiting in line ;)

Remaining calm under pressure and remaining calm for wrong things are entirely different things! Former needs courage and latter lacks it!

There is a subtle difference between people who are diplomatic because they genuinely don't have opinion or after thinking weigh both sides equally and people who have strong opinion but are diplomatic on face because it's safer and more secure choice. You can tell the difference!

Happiness is knowing that given second chances you'd still make the same choices!

If you have to choose between health, peace of mind and money, choose former. You can always earn latter anytime if you have former.

When you're dead you don't know you're dead. All the pain is felt by others. Same thing happens when you're stupid!

Cunning isn't opposite to foolish. Both lie opposite to competent and wise! 

Winning back trust isn't easy when you already give plenty of fair chances and thoughts without prejudices before it's broken!

If you take honest and good people for granted, you'll end up in having to adjust with fake and bad ones!

True mentors or leaders don't aim to create followers with same opinions as their own, instead they create learners who are capable and strong enough to form their own opinions based on their knowledge and experiences.

Trustworthiness is objective. You're either trustworthy or not. There is no middle. Middle is always untrustworthy.

Its not difficult to fight tough situations in life. Its difficult to fight those without making yourself bitter or dirty!

Intentions and actions are equally important. Good intentions with bad actions harm the present while bad intentions with good(or fake) actions harm the future.

The true mental strength of an individual is tested when he detaches himself from associations based on country, race, religion gender, school, profession etc etc. Otherwise 90% of it is strength of group and not himself/herself.

Success is nothing but the difference between what you've got and what you make of it!

Real progress is making everyone economically and socially secure, confident and free!

History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators than backward-looking masses!

No knowledge or deep knowledge both are harmless! It's the middle that's problematic, clumsy, confused and harmful! Same is with social, economic status or even our age!

There is a subtle difference between responsibility and initiative. Initiatives are easy. Anyone (even fools) can take initiative if one is not required to take accountability/responsibility of bad outcomes as well!

Be simple. Be honest. Be integral. Be eager to learn always. Do not show you're so! There's a huge difference in being and showing! Showing is very easy, being is much more difficult! Also these qualities have innate property of transparency which reduces when you try to show those!

Never be not nice to nice people! You will end up having to be nice to not so nice people!

It's so much absurd to form yet another group just to fight group-ism! No group can be collectively better than other!

There is certain time till we confuse goodness with like-mindedness/similarity in lifestyle! Once we achieve a certain maturity, we instead try to explore the diversity and never try to unify people, instead just accept as they are! Unification has a hidden motive of better control and reinforcing superiority!

World sometimes behaves in strange & confusing ways. It praises infants who really cant appreciate it, while it forgets to give much more needed appreciation to elders/senior citizens.

Selfishness is not in living as one wishes to live, but in making others live as one wishes to live.

The good thing about not being able to pretend to be good at something is that it becomes mandatory for you to be actually good at it.

Deny the best within you the right to come to top and you will have no best left!

Every decision in life is an ‘if else’ statement. No matter which path you choose, these is always another path which you miss to experience. 

Problem solving 101: Put the right problem in right words.

If everyone is thinking the same, then someone isn’t thinking.