He who hesitates is lost.
Look before you leap.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Opposites attract.
You're never too old to learn.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
Ask and you shall receive.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Variety is the spice of life.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Faith will move mountains.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Two heads are better than one.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Actions speak louder than words.
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Silence is golden.
The squeky wheel gets the grease.
Clothes make the man.
Never judge a book by its cover.
The best things come in small packages.
The bigger, the better.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.
If you can't beat'em join'em.
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
How winners behave!!!
A winner is NOT one who NEVER FAILS......but one who NEVER QUITS!!!"
Need proof? Read on...
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Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post since his voice
was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his
obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous. He is Amitabh Bachchan.
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In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for
the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not
impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said,
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group
was called The Beatles.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency told
modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or
else get married". She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
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In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after
one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go
back to drivin' a truck". He went on to become Elvis Presley.
-- - --------------------------------------------
A small boy--the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling
newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally
smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket
he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was
made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey
of India single-handedly. He is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. President of India.
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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring
off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration
call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who
would ever want to see one of them?"
-------------------------------------------
When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments
before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so
many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It
just happened to be a 2000-step process".
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In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to
20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all
turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a
tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to
his invention--an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox
Corporation.
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A little girl--the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her
survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double
pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with aparalyzed left leg. At age
9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to
walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said
was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a
race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she
came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running.
One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won
every race she entered. Eventually this little girl--Wilma Rudolph, went on
to win three Olympic gold medals.
----------------------------------------
A schoolteacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics
and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would
not become anybody in life. The boy was Albert Einstein.
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Need proof? Read on...
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Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post since his voice
was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his
obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous. He is Amitabh Bachchan.
-------------------------------------------
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for
the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not
impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said,
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group
was called The Beatles.
--------------------------------------------
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency told
modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or
else get married". She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
----------------------------------------------
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after
one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go
back to drivin' a truck". He went on to become Elvis Presley.
-- - --------------------------------------------
A small boy--the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling
newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally
smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket
he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was
made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey
of India single-handedly. He is Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. President of India.
-------------------------------------------
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring
off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration
call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who
would ever want to see one of them?"
-------------------------------------------
When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments
before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so
many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It
just happened to be a 2000-step process".
-------------------------------------------
In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to
20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all
turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a
tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to
his invention--an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox
Corporation.
------------------------------------------
A little girl--the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her
survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double
pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with aparalyzed left leg. At age
9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to
walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said
was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a
race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she
came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running.
One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won
every race she entered. Eventually this little girl--Wilma Rudolph, went on
to win three Olympic gold medals.
----------------------------------------
A schoolteacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics
and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would
not become anybody in life. The boy was Albert Einstein.
-------------------------------------------
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
(Quote) The greatest enemy of knowledge.....
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen Hawking
Friday, October 15, 2004
Are U a Smart Pgmr?
A young Programmer and his Project Manager board a train headed through the mountains on its way to Wichita. They can find no place to sit except for two seats right across the aisle from a young woman and her grandmother. After a while, it is obvious that the young woman and the young programmer are interested in each other, because they are giving each other looks. Soon the train passes into a tunnel and it is pitch black. There is a sound of a kiss followed by the sound of a slap.
When the train emerges from the tunnel, the four sit there without saying a word. The grandmother is thinking to herself, "It was very brash for that young man to kiss my granddaughter, but I'm glad she slapped him."
The Project manager is sitting there thinking, "I didn't know the young tech was brave enough to kiss the girl, but I sure wish she hadn't missed him when she slapped me!"
The young woman was sitting and thinking, "I'm glad the guy kissed me, but I wish my grandmother had not slapped him!"
The young programmer sat there with a satisfied smile on his face. He thought to himself, "Life is good. How often does a guy have the chance to kiss a beautiful girl and slap his Project manager all at the same time!"
B A Smart Programmer!!!!!!
When the train emerges from the tunnel, the four sit there without saying a word. The grandmother is thinking to herself, "It was very brash for that young man to kiss my granddaughter, but I'm glad she slapped him."
The Project manager is sitting there thinking, "I didn't know the young tech was brave enough to kiss the girl, but I sure wish she hadn't missed him when she slapped me!"
The young woman was sitting and thinking, "I'm glad the guy kissed me, but I wish my grandmother had not slapped him!"
The young programmer sat there with a satisfied smile on his face. He thought to himself, "Life is good. How often does a guy have the chance to kiss a beautiful girl and slap his Project manager all at the same time!"
B A Smart Programmer!!!!!!
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Bust station,Train Station and Work Station
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... what more can I say........
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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
(Quotes) Taking Chances
Alvin Toffler
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Robert H. Schuller
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Lee Trevino
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
William Joseph Slim
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
Herodotus
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
A.E. Hotchner
I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
Dale Carnegie
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Earl Nightingale
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Robert H. Schuller
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Lee Trevino
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
William Joseph Slim
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
Herodotus
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
A.E. Hotchner
I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
Dale Carnegie
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Earl Nightingale
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
(Quote) Power to do...
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
-Aristotle
-Aristotle
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Saturday, October 02, 2004
Lateral Thinking ...!!!
Suppose you are going in a deep forest on a stormy
night and found three persons underneath a tree. One
is a doctor, who saved your life when you were young,
and the other is a 90-year-old woman suffering from
asthma requiring immediate hospitalisation. The third
one is your dream girl or boy. If you have only one
seat in your car besides you, what would you do?
Think and answer....
1. around 80% in this world, would prefer to take the
old woman. they are the normal ones!
2. around 20% would prefer to take the doctor, who is
beneficial to society. they are called realists.
3. <1% would prefer to take the girl/boy, they are
called materialists.
thats is not the end.
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there are also very very less % of people who have
another option.
How about giving your keys to the doctor and request
him to take the old lady to the hospital, and you
staying back with your dream girl/boy spending a
beautiful stormy night in the forest?.
they are called lateral thinkers!
this was stolen from a book quoting *Edward de Bono*
as the owner of this story.
A STRANGER'S JUST A FRIEND
Whenever you're feeling lonely,
Whenever you're feeling low -
There's one thing you must remember,
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
I'll pass along this way just one time only,
A fleeting moment in eternity -
Why should I spend my life alone and lonely,
When just a word of friendship is the key?
A warm smile can bring you true love,
A warm heart can make it grow;
There's no need for feeling lonely,
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
No matter where you go, of this you can be sure:
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
-Gilbert Gibson/Jim Reeves
Whenever you're feeling low -
There's one thing you must remember,
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
I'll pass along this way just one time only,
A fleeting moment in eternity -
Why should I spend my life alone and lonely,
When just a word of friendship is the key?
A warm smile can bring you true love,
A warm heart can make it grow;
There's no need for feeling lonely,
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
No matter where you go, of this you can be sure:
A stranger's just a friend you do not know.
-Gilbert Gibson/Jim Reeves
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