Intelligent or sensible?

“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My Thoughts:
This happens with most of us. When we think we know something or about something, we want that our way. And when that stuff is not the way you want, it seems ridiculous.

Where as the sensible man, even he knows that something, would know that things are the way they are for a particular reason. That does not mean that we need not improve things, of course we should but without looking at things as if they were ridiculous.

Four important looks

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Monday, 26 Jan '09

“The four important looks in your life - Look back and get experience, Look forward and see hope, Look around and find reality, Look within and find confidence.”

--Anonymous

My Thoughts:
This is such a wonderful quote! Just see how by merely looking at four different places can find four precious things.

Look at your past, learn from mistakes and get experience. Look optimistically at your future and see hope. Look at present and things around and you know what’s happening and Look at yourself and find out what are you capable of and be confident.

Experience Certainty

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Sunday, 25 Jan '09

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”

--Michael Crichton

My Thoughts:
Just enjoy the quote!

Double your Money

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Saturday, 24 Jan '09

“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.”

-Kin Hubbard

My Thoughts:
This is more applicable now, in such hard financial times, than ever before. That’s a simple ideology, no pain no gain.

So if you want to safeguard your money, then the only way is to keep it to yourself. You could not gain anything unless you make your money move out of your hand.

Do what is required

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Friday, 23 Jan '09

“It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.”

-Sir Winston Churchill

My Thoughts:
As simple as that, what else can I add? That’s enough for one who understands.

It would come back

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Thursday, 22 Jan '09

“What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.”

--Oprah Winfrey

My Thoughts:
Your deeds in this world work like a ball thrown at a wall. I would bounce back. The more intensely you strike, the more forcefully would it come back.

And it works for all the deeds. You do good and good would bounce back, you do evil and evil would bounce back.

Wise in proportion

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Wednesday, 21 Jan '09

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

--James Boswell

My Thoughts:
When I read this Quote, I remember my English Teacher, Prof. Anthony. He used to tell us about his experiences about teachers with horrible English, who he claims have been teaching English for more that 10 years!

While telling this, the point Prof. Anthony wanted to make was that when these teachers said they had 10 years of experience, they actually meant they had effectively 2 years of experience and for the rest 8 years they repeated the same thing they had learned for the first 2 years. So people are proportional to what they have learned from their experience.

Choice not chance

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Tuesday, 20 Jan '09

“It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.”

--Jean Nidetch

My Thoughts:
I do believe in destiny and know that it’s all already written there. I am doing something or I am at some place only because it’s my destiny that I am following.

But then you have your own free will to take your decisions. So you are at that place because you have made a decision and so you have determined your destiny.

Appropriate Gift

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Monday, 19 Jan '09

“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.”

--Charles Dudley Warner

My Thoughts:
You gift a friend with a car, but he doesn’t have home. Your gift is cool and expensive. But is that appropriate for your friend who doesn’t have a home to stay?

So from your point of view, a particular gift may be excellent but a gift is excellent only if it appropriate to the need of that person.

Why Don’t they?

Quote & Thought for the Day -- Sunday, 18 Jan '09

“Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.”

-- Steven Wright

My Thoughts:
Just enjoy the quote!