Greatest Pleasure

The greatest pleasure I’ve had is to try to do something that people said would never be done              - Mr.Ratan Tata

courtesy: NYT

Doing something

'One should not dream of becoming something, one should dream of doing something.'

Source: PM Narendra Modi #NamoWave Indian express

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”
— Charlie Munger

Most people go though life not really getting any smarter. Why? They simply won’t do the work required.

It’s easy to come home, sit on the couch, watch TV and zone out until bed time rolls around. But that’s not really going to help you get smarter.

Source : The Warren buffet formula

Desire to make a difference

'Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world'

Source : Archimedes

The Unreasonable Man

'The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: The unreasonable persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all the progress depends on the unreasonable man'

Source: George Bernard Shaw

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind

Source : Louis Pasteur.

Chance presents unexpected results. Unexpected results are most likely to offer true new discoveries. 

The researcher whose mind is unprepared often simply sees unexpected results as failed experiments and throws them away. The researcher whose mind is prepared sees an opportunity for what might be a whole new field of research and discovery.

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills!

 Source : Chinese saying

Vision without execution is hallucination

“Vision without execution is hallucination."  ― Thomas A. Edison