Quotes

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Education

• Its mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
• To educate a person in mind but not in moral is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt
• Highest result of education is tolerance. - Hellen Keller
• Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Communication

• Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare
• The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Motivation

• Motivation will almost always, beat mere talent
• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D Rocketfeller
• Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are probably right. - Henry Right

Mind Blown

• Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John D Rocketfeller
• We don't have to be Danish to eat Danish cookies nor do we become Swiss if we eat Swiss Chocolate. We accept food, music and technology from every part of the world. Then why don't we accept wisdom from every part of the world and from every tradition.
• If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
• Its not the voting that is democracy, its the counting.
• Winners lose more than losers. They win and lose more than losers, because they stay in the game.
• Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. - M Gandhi
• If things go wrong, don't go with them. - Roger Babson

How tigers are responsible for modern diseases

Humans showed no signs of high blood pressure or diabetes when we were living in forests. Following is an interesting theory by Dr. B M Hedge, which tell us why such diseases materialized in our time.

Back in the days when we were living in forests, a harmful situation for us would have been, for example, when we  would encounter a tiger.

When we sense a  dangerous situation, Epinephrine (fight hormone) is released from brain in response to  neural signals reflecting increased demand for glucose. Epinephrine reaches the liver to  produce glucose which is needed by  the muscles to flee from the situation.

So while this is happening, we have an adrenaline rush, we get the extra energy and we  run.

Now in our day and age  we don’t see tigers ,right? Wrong. We see  them. We encounter them everyday. These tigers are our bosses or our shouting partners or any situation that makes us anxious.

So when our boss is screaming at us, same thing is happening internally. Epinephrine is released, liver produces glycogen and then what? We don’t run. We don’t utilize what our body is preparing us for i.e. fleeing from the negative situation.

This creates imbalance in energy amongst us and further creates diseases.

Makes sense right? Right!

Dr. Hegde is an Indian medical scientist, educationist and author.

He shuns the western practices of medicine on proven experiments that antibiotics and western medicine is a temporary solution and bad for long run health. He says that any disease occurring within us results from unbalanced or negative energy and how organic living , clean mind and positive energy can result in ultimate mental and physical fitness.

 (This article is rephrased from the original speech. Might contain some discrepancy)

P.S Don't just run away whilst your boss is screaming at you. Let him finish. 

Make your bed in the morning

If you make your bed every morning , you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give u a small sense of pride and will encourage you to do another task and another and another and another.

By the end of the day that one task complicated will have turn into many tasks completed.

Making your bed will also re enforce the fact that the little things in life matter.

If you cant do little things right, you will never be able to do the big things right.

And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made... that you made!And a made bed gives u encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

So if you want to change the world..start of by making your bed!

Source: University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address- Admiral William H. McRaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=377&v=pxBQLFLei70

Shoe bite

My trust is gone
Every seller is a con

I go to buy a shoe with all my sprite
I end having the worst bite

At the mall, it isn’t tight
At home, it feels alright
Then I reach office and I am in a plight

I buy a cheap shoe
All it did was chew
Then my budget grew
And I bought a costly shoe

Let me very terse
Branded shoe bite is worse
Cause money spent is more here
The pain felt is much more to bear

If only they allowed sneakers in the office
The whining would end
I promise

Maybe I don’t know how to shop
That’s why I feel like I am robbed

But my trust is gone
Cause every seller is a con

Kiran Bedi, the dynamite lady

I read Kiran Bedi’s I dare
Leaders like her are rare
I cannot explain you my despair
Because changing such corrupt system is difficult, I swear
Politicians just lurk
Worst is, they make sure even others can’t do their work

She reformed Delhi’s traffic
The changes were drastic
Even big shots had to follow the law
Public witnessed this in complete awe
The authorities were getting scared
They dint want her spared

She was posted to Tihar jail
The conditions there were frail
Sober people came in
Criminals and addicts were made in, that’s the biggest sin
Majority were in under trial
Our law makers or these people; who is more vile?

They were not treated as human
This destroyed their acumen
Humanity was minimal
She changed the staff’s working principle

Corruption now was not possible
Drugs, alcohol and smoke in jail, impossible
New attitude was being constructed
Education and hobbies in convicts were being inducted
Addicts were cured
Whole world was lured
Now the authorities were again insecure
Politicians couldn't endure
They would transfer her, it was assured

She was posted here and there
She did her work everywhere
She did her work right
Leader she was tight
As rare as we could find, our system she could fight

Let this whole generation be like her
What will they do when anyone they induct,
display her morals and conduct?

Unaware girls

I see you are on a walk

I don’t intend to mock

But that jeans is tighter than I thought

I feel bad for you

Cause you are yet to discover the truth

That even in your youth

Your looks isn't what will get u in those groups

Maybe you are unaware

But your confidence is what will make other girls sweat

Maybe you are unaware

But those loose cloths is the best a woman can get

Heels make you feel tall

Gives you the boost that is in need of the hour

If you just change the way you thought

Even flats will give u an added power

Maybe you are unaware

But the guys don’t give a damn

Maybe you are unaware

Being a lady with heels is a scam

Makeup will attract that dude

But when you speak

Who will stop him from being so rude?

Maybe you are unaware

That knowledge attracts

Maybe you are unaware

That only personality makes the final impact

Maybe you are aware

Maybe you choose to live that way

Maybe if you would genuinely try

You would realize, there’s a better way of life

Easy and difficult

It’s easy to make abs

Walking like a bouncer is easier than that

Diet for the figure u long

Your terminal goal is unconditionally wrong

What’s difficult is to have a good health

Muscles don’t do that to ourselves

Leaving the must,everything is in trend; Gyms n figure and wealth

It’s easy to get a job

Working 9 to 5 is all it demands

But time is swifter than the sands

What’s difficult is be happy while u work

No one remembers but

Satisfaction is the ultimate perk

It’s easy to listen to a song

When brain ceases to become strong

And then chats and photos take an unprecedented toll

What’s difficult is to think

Look around and rethink

I wish to see those thoughts out in the rink

It’s easy to read this rhyme

What’s easier is to gossip past this point

And what’s worse it to forget this with time

See the bigger picture I say

Creating your own terms will ultimately weigh

What’s difficult is to understand this with all your will

What challenges you is to act on it as if it’s a drill