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Technology Quotes

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. -Mark Kennedy. We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. -Carl Sagan. The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -Antoine de Saint. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.  -E. F. Schumacher. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard. Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.  -Carrie P. Snow. I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about total

Action Quotes.

      "Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. -Mother Teresa. Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin. Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory. -Mahatma Gandhi. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers. If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. -Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud. We call it infectious impa

Japanese Quotes & Proverbs.

Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away. Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands. Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth. One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too. Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there. One kind word can warm three winter months. The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. Fix the problem, not the blame. When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead. Fall seven times, stand up eight. One kindness is the price of another. Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black. The

Greed Quotes.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. -Frank Buchman. Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. -Ivan F. Boesky. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. -Malcolm X. A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same. -Swiss Proverb. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. -Buddha. Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. -Janwillem van de Wetering. What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, an

Fools !!! (22)

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. -Plato. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." -The Bible. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool.  The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.-Buddha (563 - 483 BC). " When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. " -Nelson Mandela. A fool and his money are easily parted. -Proverb. Idleness is a fool's desire. -Proverb. " Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. " -Andre Maurois. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -Alexandre Dumas. Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool. -Irish Proverb.

Vegetarian Quotes

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -Paul McCartney. There is a great deal of truth to the idea that you will eventually become what you eat. -Mohandas K. Gandhi To my mind the life of the lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless the creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. -Mohandas K. Gandhi Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -Leonardo da Vinci "...by increasing plant-based food and lessening animal products such as dairy, eggs, meat, cheese and butter, you will benefit in the long run." -Natalie Ledesma, MS, RD It is good neither to eat fl

Love Quotes.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu. Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. Love means never having to say you are sorry. A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. It is terrible to be alone, and it is terrible to be in love, but one is cheaper than the other. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit. Where there is great love, there are always wishes. It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Love waits for one thing, the right mom

Excellence Quotes.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.  -George Bernard Shaw . Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca. No crime is so great as daring to excel. -Winston Churchill. Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best. -Anon . Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. -Henry Ward Beecher. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle. Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. -Fernando Flores. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. -Mark H. McCormack.

May the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear ones lives !

Happy Diwali! The word "Diwali"is derived from the Sanskrit word "Deepavali", which is composed of two words - Deepa meaning Light and Avali meaning a Row. It means a row of lights and indeed illumination forms its main attraction. Diwali leads us into Truth and Light and is celebrated on Amavasya. Happy Diwali! Diwali is one of the most popular festivals of India and of Hindus. Diwali celebrations one of the most eagerly awaited festivals in the Indian subcontinent. It is colloquially known as the "festival of lights", for the common practice is to light small diyas (oil lamps) and place them around the home, in courtyards, verandahs, and gardens, as well as on roof-tops and outer walls. In urban areas, especially, candles are substituted for diyas; and among the nouveau riche, neon lights are made to substitute for candles. The celebration of the festival is invariably accompanied by the exchange of sweets and the explosion of fireworks. As with other I

Sweet Quotes [06]

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong. -Dutch Proverb. Bloom where you are planted. -Aunt Grace. Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. -Leo Buscaglia. Nobody ever died of laughter. -Max Beerbohm. Always laugh when you can. It is cheaper than medicine. -Lord Byron.

Heart Quotes.

You are the answer to every prayer I've said. I couldn't have made you more perfect if I tried. You have become a thief and stolen my heart. Please don't be a vandal and break it. -Angelina Kristine. The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Beecher, Henry Ward. A good heart is worth gold. -William Shakespeare. All offences come from the heart. -William Shakespeare. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -Ingersoll, Robert G. When the heart speaks, however simple the word, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. -Mary Baker Eddy. Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning.-Chinese Proverb. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.-Unknown. The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.-Martin Luther King. God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.-Mahatma Gandhi. The workings of the human heart ar

Quotes on India : Indian Quotes

A smile you sent, will always return. To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great. I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet. Where love reigns the impossible may be attained. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. -Will Durant . If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India. -Max Muller . Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. India is an interesting combination - world class talent that can speak English and a strong technological expertise.Tony Wright. What's struck me is the energy and restless ambition in India. You can actually, tangibly feel the drive... Peter Knapp. In religion, India is the only millionaire......the

Ethics (25)

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. -Albert Einstein. A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. -Janet Holmes. A man does what he must.. in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures.. and that is the basis of all human morality. -John F. Kennedy. If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing. -Henry Kravis. Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde. In law a man is guilt

Greatness

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. -Jean Jacques Rousseau. Each of us is great in so far as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. - James Harvey Robinson. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent Van Gogh. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. -Henry Ward Beecher. The price of greatness is responsibility. -Winston Churchill. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. -William Shakespeare. There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. -Mother Teresa. Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy w

Why Me ?

A Motivating Paragraph received by email   Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of CANCER. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a fatal disease"?       To this Arthur, Ashe replied:  The world over -- 5 billion children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 0.5 million learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD "Why me?". And today in pain I should not be asking GOD "Why me?"       Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble, Success keeps u glowing, but only God Keeps u going."

Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr., ( January 15 , 1929 – April 4 , 1968 ) was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement , a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is regarded as one of America's greatest orators. King's most influential and well-known public address is the " I Have A Dream " speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker , promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races ). On April 4 , 1968 , King was assassinated in Memphis , Tennessee . In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter . In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday . In 2004, King was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal . King often called for personal responsibility in fostering world peace. Our lives begin to end the day we b

John F. Kennedy Quotes.(26)

John F. Kennedy 05/29/1917 - 11/22/1963 35th president of the USA The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. Those who make peaceful revolution impossib

Albert Einstein Quotes (31)

Albert Einstein Click here to read more about Albert Einstein If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. God doesn't play dice. God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean. Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-- unless it is an enemy. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi (25)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Born: October 2, 1869, Porbandar, Gujarat, India. Died: January 30, 1948, New Delhi, India. Click Here to Know More about "Mahatma Gandhi" To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Good government is no substitute for self-government. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love.. it is the prerogative of the brave. A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy. Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own

Jesus Quotes. (33)

Click Here to Know More About Jesus LOVE ONE ANOTHER! John 15:12 Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone. -Jesus. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. -Matthew 5:9 If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. -Source: The Gospel of Thomas. The kingdom of heaven is spread out across the earth, only people don't see it. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Luke 18:25) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep'

Examination.

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. -Catherine Crier. On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. -.Emma Goldman. One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination. -Henry Blofeld. There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. -J. Krishnamurti. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring

Winner

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. -Donald Trump. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. - Donald Trump. Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch. -Marshall McLuhan. Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. -Donald Trump. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. -Napoleon Hill. Women have but one task, that of crowning the winner

Courage

  1.     The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. - Paul Tillich. 2.    Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Booth Luce. 3.    Courage is fear that has said its prayers. -- Dorothy Bernard. 4.    Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker. 5.    A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul Richter. 6.    Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. - John Quincy Adams. 7.    The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. - Corra Harris. 8.    Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. - Thomas Fuller. 9.    Fortune favors the brave. – Virgil. 10. Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a m