Quotes from my brain

Quotes from my brains

Man supposes; God exposes.
God composes; man decomposes.
Man thinks, shrinks, sinks, and stinks.
We want thinking people not people thinking.
What cannot be taken back shouldn’t be forwarded.
Everything that is soft outwardly is hard inside.
What knot is not a naught.
What you say is not what you want to say when you don’t want to say what you want to say.
If you have a head between two ears; you’re a fool. If you have two ears either side of your head then you are a genius.
Money buys many things, but a few cannot be bought by money; they are the richest inheritors of this planet.

Live for yourself the world will take the life out of you.
Laugh at yourself the world will stop laughing at you.
Look after yourself and the world will be after you.
Love yourself and the world will depart from you.

What troubles us most initially will give us pleasure later.
Life has problematic circumstances and troubles not to trouble us, but to make us master these.
Some are born to be granted; some are granted to be born.
Learn to love everything you do as long as it doesn’t hurt others.
Copying is something you do because of necessity; imitation is acquiring and imbibing certain qualities, for imitation is an art.
Don’t shake off responsibility, because it has perceived you to be the ablest person who can shoulder it.
Commonsense is the master of wisdom and wit, knowledge and intelligence.

To a wise saying:
A fool hears; An intelligent listens; A wise man practices; A genius masters.

Man thinks after acting, women before.

The mighty don’t realize that their mightiness is because of the people around them.

God can be man, but man cannot be God.

Ideas contradicted become views, accepted become truths.

The bad of good is better than the good of bad.

Men say:
Choose what is good and discard what is bad, but where can good come from someone who is instinctively and genetically bad?

Man chooses good and throws away the bad; whereas, God chooses the bad and makes them good.

All great men are great, because their greatness wasn’t recognized in their age.

Duplication guarantees the content not the emotions and feelings.
Perceptions are misconceptions of reality.

You cannot step on people to go ahead in life, but if they are standing in your way; you can jump over them.

A word can make or take away your world.

Experience is the name given by man to the mistakes he makes. O.Henry

A woman’s world cannot be seen with a man’s eyes and cannot be perceived by a man’s heart.

A lying husband is open book in front of his wife.

Man is after looks and women after brains.

It is not how tall you are that matters; it is how tall you tower your problems that matters most.

World is a maze; straightforwardness is unsuitable for it.

You fail to understand yourself; you are an ordinary man.
You understand yourself; you are a man.
You understand others; you are an extraordinary man,
You understand others as well as yourself; you are a superman.

Simplicity is the authenticity of purity.

The eventful history of everyman ends in a day.
Carry a word here and there; finally, you wear and tear.

Take away the ‘B’ from ‘blame’ it becomes harmless.

Politicians are citizens gone astray.

We express what we can’t suppress.
We try to impress, when we can’t express.

Love ends when lust begins; lust ends when love begins.

What is legal in the sight of man need not be legal in the sight of God.

Purity of heart leads to clarity of thought.

Guests are welcome on the first day, tolerated on the second day, prohibited on the third day. In other contexts, they are welcome any day until the outburst on the final day which can be the very first day.

Ideas are injected; proposals are projected; reports are rejected; employees are dejected; if this happens often, then you are in a private organization.

A film is one which defies and defiles the laws of Physics, sometimes other branches of science, and most of the time commonsense of man.

God gave man brain; to that added man vain, pain, and strain.

A successful politician is one who has an honest face and a corrupt mind.

What can you give your wife, who has slept, kept, and wept with you in times even and uneven.

The milder the countenance the wilder the passions.

A time being waits for an opportunity and an opportunist waits for time.

Precision in decision is indispensable for a business.

Arrogance is the fragrance of ignorance.

We enquire others worthiness, when we suspect our own.

Destiny takes the cause of the destitute.

Marriage – the institution that distinguishes man from the beast.

Over-expectation and under-estimation are two sides of the same coin – and are always dangerous for the user and receiver.

A true FATHER:

Friend in disguise;
Always and assuredly wise;
True to word indeed;
Helping hand indeed;
Enemy of none;
Revered by his sons.

God made us whole, but our conscience and guilt have drilled a big hole.

A woman laughing in public – remember, she needs attention acutely.
Gaze into the eyes of a woman and her heart will be revealed to you; for a man you need not for he is an open book.

A WIFE

Wise and witty in wielding worries
Impeccable interest to impress(husband not outsiders)
Faithful and forgiving
Enterprising and enthusiastic woman

Prose is a pillar and poetry a statue both made from the same stone.
Poetry is expressing lofty ideas in crafty words.
The richer we grow financially, the poorer we become morally.

Honesty needs no publicity; sincerity needs no popularity.

A man’s personality is in his height of attention and level of intention.

Often the most needed skill is the most neglected.

Read a person like a book and a book like a person.

Performing in pressures is discovering unknown treasures.

If leisure is your master then seizure is your pay.

Silence external noise to hear internal voice; silence internal noise to hear eternal voice.

A beast exhibits minimum rationale and maximum impulse; a man has to exhibit the exact opposite.

A psychologist is a person who understands peoples’ minds better than his own.

Do you want to know

Do you want to know my teacher?
Just you have to reach her.
She’s such a wonderful preacher,
If possible she’ll teach every creature.

Do you want to know my student?
It’s worth spending a moment,
To find out what his li’l mind has,
Whether class, brass, or grass.

Do you want to know my parents?
They can spend anything(on us), but a few moments.
They are lost when they are sought(by us).
When they seek us; we don’t give a thought(about them).

Age

When you are one; everything seems to be won.
When you are two; everyplace is for loo.
When you are three; everything is free.
When you are four; you start feeling bored.
When you are five; world comes alive.
When you are six; you are in a fix.
When you are seven; everything seems even.
When you are eight; you try to be straight.
When you are nine; you start behaving fine.
When you are ten; everything seems to be then.
When you are twenty; life appears to be bounty.
When you are thirty; the world seems to be dirty.
When you are forty; you try to be sportive.
When you are fifty; you thrive to be thrifty.
When you are sixty; you long to live till seventy.
When you are seventy; life is really hefty.
When you are eighty; death appears to be gaiety.
When you are ninety; you long to have ended it at fifty.
When you are hundred; o come on you are already dead.

The Interviewer’s Blues

Someone said sometime ago, “What you see in the other person is a reflection of you.” This saying may not be really backed by research and for the sake of a few doubting Thomases it is indeed backed by research done by Cherry Carter (check Cherry Carter’s Ten rules of life). After being in the interviewer’s shoes for a few years, it was my turn to be on the other side of the table. An eleventh hour call for an interview and a two hour waiting ordeal, this was how the interview went on. Thank heavens for I had some rapport with one of the directors and the HR executive who constantly engaged me in some good conversation. The time had come for the CEO, a pretty young brat of a well to do family, to call me; I was ushered into his presence by the senior director who enlightened me with a piece of sage advice asking me to carry my laptop into the room. As soon as I entered, I was surprised to see an expression worth not explaining on this gentleman’s face. He wasn’t happy at all and I checked my attire once and then my language and started my introduction, when he rudely interrupted me and asked me to close the cabin door. “Well” I thought, “might be a part of the interview process.”
And thus the story went on:

I: I started working as a marketing executive for a pharmaceutical company and after a year I switched my career from marketing to teaching. I worked for a college before I came to the city, I was working as a content writer for a major publishing house when I landed into fulltime language and soft skills training. Today I head the training department and I have a stake in the company.

CEO: I don’t see a point why a guy who has a business wants to take up a full time employment instead of improving his own business. (With a frown on his face)

I: Well, (he caught me where it hurt the most) The firm is set on its course and it requires minimum supervision from our end. On the other hand the partners have a difference in opinion. As for my role, I have trained and deployed trainers and they take care of the day to day training activities.

CEO: Your English is not good. It seems that you think in your mother tongue and then speak in English. I understand you are from a regional medium and you have learnt English. There are breaks when you speak.

I: I really appreciate the feedback. However I don’t come from a regional medium background nor I think in my native tongue and translate it into English. Probably my pronunciation might have made you think like that. Let me tell you that English is a stress timed language and certain syllables are stressed and the others are unstressed. Where as in our language(because we share the same native tongue) we don’t place stress(this was the point I explained in the class I took in the university).

CEO: Somehow I feel that language is not natural to you.

I: (Who told him it was natural to me or him I don’t know) Well, if my pronunciation pattern gives you an impression that my language is not natural, I may have to accept it because I use the standard pronunciation (pruh nun see ay shon) pattern. I am sorry about it.

CEO: How different are you from the others?

I: (How different I am depends on how different others see me) Well as an individual I am someone who doesn’t get involved in others private affairs. Given a task I don’t rest until I get it done. I always ensure that people around me are comfortable, I am good at motivating people (which I have done umpteen number of times).

CEO: What books do you read?

I: Books on management, psychology and spiritual stuff.

CEO: What spiritual stuff?

I: Christian literature.

CEO: So you are a Christian? (Then he checks my resume for a clue, he doesn’t find anything there because my name sounds different)

I: Oh yes, I am a Christian.

CEO: What are the other books?

I: (I have a small collection of books around 1500 or so)The books that I have read so far are seven habits, first things first, transaction analysis, emotional intelligence, you can win and so on. Psychology and its role in management interests me much. At present I am doing a bit of research on IQ and its role in management.

CEO: Somehow I feel that I am doing a mistake by taking you in. I don’t see much of value addition to the organization because of you. If I take you in it’s going to be an experimentation.

I: ( I indeed appreciate this guy for being so frank in airing his opinions even though they weren’t justified nor supported by some valid observations)If you think that you are making a mistake by taking me in, sir, (I was polite as usual) then I will not allow you to make the mistake.

CEO: Tell me the cost of my mistake.

I: If you think that my selection is a mistake, I wouldn’t be comfortable working here as they say first impressions do matter a lot. So every time we see each other we will always be haunted by the same impressions.

CEO: Do you think you could take a cut on your salary?

I: Let me think about it and I will inform you later, sir. (here was a kid not knowing what to ask and not knowing what to say, so I was more inclined to leave the room rather than give any commitments to him.)

Finally we shook hands and closed it on a cordial note( though farcical).

After helping hundreds get into jobs and training a thousand odd guys I was indeed happy at the end of the interview; one reason being I could write something for my blog which has been starving for new postings and the other is that you need not eat a whole egg to find it rotten (It applies both ways for me and the guy as well).

The crux of the matter is I was called in for an editor’s job and interviewed for a team leader’s position.

Let the reader decide where the aberration took place.

Sky's the Limit

2010 AD
7.45 A.M. Bill has 15 minutes to reach office. The drive to office usually takes him 45 minutes. Bill has to present his findings to the committee comprising of the CEO. But Bill’s face radiates an unusual calm. He saunters to his garage. Bill takes out his new X Hawk. The rest is history.

We are not far away from the day when we’ll be flying in our cars to our offices, parking them on the rooftops, watching news filled with stories of mid sky traffic jams and flying cops. Sounds fantasizing, yet this is no fantasy; we are very close to ground reality which will take off vertically from the coming decade onwards. After a century the first flight took off, scientists and engineers are ready to unveil the new flying car for the general public. This mini mid air transportation will be a breather to all those who have been infested by traffic congestions and bottleneck brawls.

This may not be news for those who have eagerly awaited decades to see the flying car and let go their hopes; however prospects of mass production have started hitting the news headlines regularly. Though the idea of a flying car germinated almost parallel to that of Wright brothers’ invention, it took almost three decades for the idea to hit the skies. The earlier models were more or less miniature representations of their colossal cousins, the aeroplane and the helicopter. After years of R&D inventors are ready to launch the first PAVs ‘Personal Air Vehicles’ by 2010. These Personal Air Vehicles come with a plethora of features, combining the luxuries of a jetliner, portability, speed, ease of driving, sleek and stylish looks and most importantly fuel efficiency matching that of a regular sedan, 28-30 miles per gallon. Priced somewhere between $1.5 -3 million and the grandiose they carry, flying cars seem to be the convention of future transportation.

There are at least a dozen companies working on this dream machine and many carrying out individual projects. To name a few models that will be available are:
StrongMobile's Magic Dragon
LaBiche Aerospace's FSC-1
The Haynes Aero Skyblazer
The Moller Skycar M400
Urban Aeronautics' X-Hawk
Terrafugia
Source: Wikipedia
Most of these models have completed the developmental stage. The companies claim that these models will clock a maximum of 150 – 450 mph. Vertical take off, satellite controlled drive and minimum human intervention are some of the unique features the PAVs promises. For those who think that the flying cars are ritzy can find some respite in the ‘Air Scooter’.
If you are interested to know more about flying cars you can visit the following websites:
For information on history and latest developments www.Wikipedia.org
www.Travel.Howstuffswork.com
www.moller.com
www.the3dtechnologies.com
www.airscooter.com
www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/ check this link for an amazing picture of a flying car captured on Google earth.

DATE: 01/09/04

YET ANOTHER DAY

The singing birds invite the day,
The fading stars behind the bay.
The sleeping earth’s eyes are open wide,
The warming sun comes from his hide.

The pompous start of this day,
Impending perils it gives way
At dawn two babies too are born
One adorned other to be torn.

Niggardly beggar begs his way,
To find a half morsel just to stay,
Quarter quarters bread with ketchup,
Left on the platter as social patchup.

Oblivion has taken grips,
Aiding billions of moral slips.
Tender lives in sexual spasms,
Driven by cultural chasms.

Man in his divisive labour,
Hating brothers in his arbour.
Ignores societal disorders,
Invites doom to cross the border.

When night falls, falls another knight,
Ceases seeing distress and plight.
Gentlemen lurk in the dark streets,
Displaying their amoral feats.

Yet another day loses its way,
The sun shrinks in utter dismay.
The oceans roar to gulp the rest,
The earth shows her patience at best.

Tears flood and flow the mountain cheeks,
In vain to slow the stubborn streaks.
Nature guided by a creature,
Has become a common feature.

The crying birds all lost in their way,
Hissing serpents stalking to slay.
Yet another day’s lost its way,
Maybe this is the last I pray.

ODE: TO REVOLUTION

I wrote this after the aftermath of Beslan, where innocent school children were held hostages for several days.
Time: 12 A.M. – 1.30 A.M.
Date: 04/09/04

ODE; TO REVOLUTION

Why hast thou cast thy cruel hand,
On innocent children ‘n’ their land?
What thy goals are? Beyond reason!
Why nip the bud in its season?

Why break the hearts of young mothers?
Shame! See, how the weather withers!
They (parents0 see children in blood and pain,
Fathers’ hearts torn in twain.

Wild notion who gave thee emotion,
Fiddle with lives to steer commotion?
What thy goal may be, go to hell!
Yet thy chances bleak, why doth swell?

“Revolution” thy name I stand.
Thou can rend the hearts not the land.
When they cry for their dead ones,
Hardest of hearts break; Thine least once?

The Al-Qaeedas, ulfas, Cubans,
The Maoists, the Bosnians,
Chechens ‘n’ a few Afrikaans,
Still at heart we are all humans.

‘Rebel” thy intent may be whole.
Art thou pure in content and soul?
Why then trouble the troubled waters,
World is not fit for fresh starters.

The poor among you fight for them,
Widows before you strive for them.
Request thee, lay not thy icy hand,
Ever on this already dead land.