a few excerpts...
8th November'09
Three things -- autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward -- are the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
[Outliers by Malcom Gladwell]
8th November'09
A typical plane crash involves seven consecutive human errors.
[Outliers by Malcom Gladwell]
24th July'09
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
[Hamlet by William Shakespeare]
11th June'09
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough
[Mae West]
10th May'09
Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper
[Francis Bacon]
25th May'08
Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavati (as you will... so it happens)
[Bhagavath Gita]
21st May'08
Just because two things are correlated does not mean that one causes the other.
It is possible that X causes Y, it is also possible that Y causes X and
it is also possible that X and Y are both being caused by some other factor Z.
[Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner]
2nd May'08
If you are jumping on the same curve, it is evolutionary, if you take big leaps on to a different curve, it is Revolutionary!
[Guy Kawasaki]
12th April'08
A coin tossed "under similar conditions" would give the same outcome everytime.
[Probability and Statistics by Morris H. DeGroot and Mark J. Schervish]
17th March'08
In case of any scientific discovery, people first deny it, then they realize it's importance, finally they credit the wrong person!
[A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson]
16th March'08
Most of the greatest achievements and the deepest joys in life come form relatioships that are transformational, not transactional!
Tasks that we face daily can be stratified into either CLOCK or COMPASS. CLOCK epitomizes tasks that refers to our committments, expectations on us etc. COMPASS epitomizes tasks that are our vision, mission etc. Most tasks are drive us with something called
urgency. The tasks that are
important needs to be acted upon by us, they need pro-active attention. The
not-so-urgent and
not-really-important tasks are time killing and relaxing tasks that we often fall back to after addressing the
urgent tasks.
[First Things First by Stephen R. Covey and A.Roger Merrill]
15th March'08
In addition to all those fabulous things one can buy with MONEY, one can buy FREE TIME too.
[Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki]