Inspirational Movie Quotes

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – The Pursuit of Happiness

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." – from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

”Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky Balboa

“Great men are not born great, they grow great.” - The Godfather

 "I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?" – from Cast Away  

Do, or do not. There is no “try”. – Yoda, from Star Wars

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.” – The Shawshank Redemption

"Don't chase success. Pursue excellence, and success will follow, pants down!" - 3 Idiots.

9 Life Lessons - Tim Minchin UWA Address

inspiring quotes from kung-fu-panda

One often meets his destiny
on the road he takes to avoid it. 

Your mind is like this water,
my friend.When it is agitated,
it becomes difficult to see.  
But if you allow it to settle...  
...the answer becomes clear.

Quit, don't quit.  
Noodles, don't noodles.  
You are too concerned
with what was and what will be.
There's a saying:
Yesterday is history,  
tomorrow is a mystery,
but today is a gift.  
That is why it is called the present.

There is just news.
There is no good or bad.
That is bad news...
...if you do not believe
that the Dragon Warrior can stop him.

There are no accidents.

My old friend,
 the panda will never fulfill
his destiny, nor you yours,
  until you let go
of the illusion of control.

Then why didn't you quit?! You knew
I wanted you gone, yet you stayed.
  Yeah, I stayed.
  I stayed because every time
you threw a brick at my head
  or said I smelled, it hurt,
but it could never hurt more
  than it did every day
of my life just being me.
  I stayed because I thought,
if anyone could change me...
  ...could make me... not me...
  ...it was you.

When you focus on kung fu,
  when you concentrate...
  ...you stink.

Come here. The secret ingredient is...
  ...nothing.
  You heard me. Nothing!
  There is no secret ingredient!
  Wait, wait.
It's just plain old noodle soup?
You don't add some kind of special
sauce or something?
  Don't have to. To make something
special, you just believe it's special.
  There is no secret ingredient.

Thought of the day

Mathematics tells us the 3 saddest love stories: 

1. Of parallel lines: who were never meant to meet. 
2. Of tangent lines: who were together once for short moment but then parted forever, And 
3. Of asymptotes: who could only get closer and closer, but could...never be together!

Thought of the day

I'm me. I'm who i'm meant to be. I'm my past, my present and who i want to be. I'm not anyone, i'm all three. I'm a work in progress, a destiny. I'm who i choose to be. I'm me and it's good to be me.

Why giving up anger and forgiveness is important... for nobody but YOU!

Came across this very interesting post and thought to collect few of the quotes mentioned over there:

1. Remember that we are all doing the best we can at the time. - Diane Paul
2. I know that I need to forgive someone, not for their benefit, but for my own peace of mind. Don’t do it for them, do it for you! - Cathryn Kent
3. You remember why you love them. Love is about forgiveness.- Holly Chapman
4. Give up on all hope of a better past. - Matt Child
5. Forgiveness comes easy when you know that what people say or do is about them, it’s not about you. - Kim Kings
6. “Hating someone is drinking poison and expecting the other person to die from it.”
7. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. – Thomas Szasz
8. True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. – David Ridge
9. A lack of trust is sometimes simply recognizing another’s limitations – Rose Sweet

I loved #1, #5 and #7 above. 

Emotions @ work

Found this interesting post day @ HBR Blog, here goes the summary to keep the thoughts handy:

The emotions people bring to work are as important as their cognitive skills, and especially so for leaders. 

Because it's not possible to check our emotions at the door when we get to work — even when that's expected — it pays to be aware of what we're feeling in any given moment. You can't change what you don't notice.

Negative emotions spread fast and they're highly toxic. The problem with the executive we let go was not that he was critical, but rather that he was so singularly focused on what was wrong that he lost sight of the bigger picture, including his own negative impact on others.

Authenticity matters because you can't fake positivity for long. It is possible to put on a "game face" — to say you're feeling one way when you're actually feeling another — but the truth will ultimately reveal itself in your facial, vocal, and postural cues. We must learn to monitor and manage our moods.

The key to balancing realism and optimism is to embrace the paradox of realistic optimism. Practically, that means having the faith to tell the most hopeful and empowering story possible in any given situation, but also the willingness to confront difficult facts as they arise and deal with them directly.

Thoughts of the day

1. Observe the environment and the people around you. How they reach to things that you do.
2. Network with people who don't look, think, act or dress like you. Talking with opposites inevitably sparks new ideas, new insights and ultimately corrects a course, individual or societal.
3. Experiment with the world by personally trying out new things, taking stuff apart or doing things differently that you've been repetitively doing day in and day out.
4. Ask more questions. Question the world with inquiries that provokes the status quo, that get under the hood of a situation, that open unexpected new directions that never emerged before. "Question the unquestionable" and see what kind of drift surfaces. Then of course correct and keep the ship from sinking.

Thought of the day

मैं क्या जिया?
मुझको जीवन ने जिया...
बूंद बूंद पिया
पीकर पथ पे खली छोड़ दिया...

- सूरज का सातवाँ घोडा (श्याम बेनेगल)

Thought of the day

At a company I frequently visit, there is a woman who works at the entrance and hands out the tickets for valet parking. She's worked at her job for years. When I pulled up a couple of days ago, it was freezing outside, and she was all bundled up. Even so, when I got out of the car she greeted me effusively, as she always does. She called me "Sweetheart," she gave me a huge smile, and her energy lifted me up. As I was walking into the building, I heard her do the same thing for the next driver, and she sounded just as heartfelt. 

This is a woman who knows who she is, and why she's here. She adds value in the world. She doesn't for a moment let the limits of her job stand in her way.

I'm inspired by her. She reminds me that knowing why you're here, and who you want to be, isn't a part-time job. The challenge is to live out what you stand for, intentionally, in every moment. 

I fall short, frequently. Who doesn't? When that happens, my goal is to notice, as quickly as I can, to take responsibility for whatever I've done, and to make amends. I know why I'm here.

Excerpts from HBR post

Thought of the day

This one comes from "How i met your mother"

Robin: Ted, the future is scary. But you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar. Yes, it's tempting...
Barney: But it's a mistake.

Thought of the day

Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old...

Thought of the day

Pencil: I'm sorry

Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.

Pencil: I'm sorry cos you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.
... ...
Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad. :)

I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational.

Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way... they get hurt, and become smaller (older, and eventually pass on).

Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

"All my life, I've been the pencil.. And it pains me to see the eraser that is my parents getting worn out (older) each day.

For I know that one day, all that I'm left with would be eraser shavings and memories of what I used to have..."

Bowled by simplicity...

I met someone yesterday and since that meeting things have been disturbing for me. There was something in those discussions that's making me nervous. Yep nervous after all those years, really long long time. Is it because of a fear that things might go the other way? Probably yes or probably not. You know i've met a lot of folks and given up on a lot others and things haven't been this difficult at all. I mean i could just ignore this person as well with exactly the same filters that i've applied on others and moved on. But hey something is different in this case.

What could it be, i wonder? So far i've been filtering others because i thought they were just not upto the mark. Here is this person all capable but still wants to choose peaceful life over anything else. Not that others don't think the same but insanely and unknowingly everybody has become part of the mad race. Everybody is running behind something without even knowing what that something is. Can this person be all lazy and bozo to sit back just like many others i've met in last few years? Probably yes or probably not. No most probably not. It's not laziness because i could see there was a fear as well for the same reasons i'm afraid. But even more importantly there was fear about loosing freedom; freedom to decide what to do and what not to do. That is something i would respect a lot in any one.

What else? There was certain kind of calmness there despite all fears. Calmness that things will eventually be alright. In general i'm very proud of my energy level and enthusiasm. Was it that calmness that's bothering me right now? Does that mean i miss that calmness somewhere within myself? I was all excited talking about my experiences in terms of cuisines, music, dramatics, movies, friends and what not. And though i did see excitement on the other person's face; the other person seemed so unmoved and still all quiet and calm. Is that what's bothering me? Probably yes or probably not. I wasn't trying to boast about myself and my experiences. To be honest i don't know why was i talking about all that? But hey i've been talking about this to other folks too and i never felt bad about it. I never exaggerated about anything to anybody (not even to this person). Besides i'd to keep the conversation flowing so i did what i thought was appropriate. So probably that's not what's bothering me.

What's bothering me then? It's been long that somebody asked me a straight question and put me into thoughts. This person did. No the question wasn't something new or unique. But it was something that i'd forgotten to ask myself for quite sometime now. This person in question also made me think about certain other side of me that i never thought existed and i couldn't appreciate about myself. Yes probably that's bothering me. Like i said i've met many other folks but it was this person who showed me something different about myself. Contrary to all the fancy stuff i was excited about, this person through calmness and simplicity showed me how simplicity could be so difficult to achieve. Yes bingo that's what it is! That's what is bothering me. ... and i'm still thinking about that simplicity and that person...

Thought of the day...

Everytime i thought i'd a plan and i knew where i was going, He unveiled His plans and a diversion. So far the dots have connected, i'm just waiting for the next set of dots. :-)

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Thought of the day

The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. I saw following possible sources for meaning:

• in work (doing something significant)
• in love (caring for another person)
• in courage (doing what was right even in difficult times)
• in acceptance (learning to move ahead with experiences from my mistakes and failures)

PS: this one again came from my sister :-)

8 questions and a why: Seth Godin

Who are you trying to please?
What are you promising?
How much money are you trying to make?
How much freedom are you willing to trade for opportunity?
What are you trying to change?
What do you want people to say about you?
Which people?
Do we care about you?
(and after each answer, ask 'why?')

Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/8-questions-and-a-why.html

shayari

मुझसे कहा खुदा ने, मत कर इन्तजार इस जनम में उसका मिलना मुश्किल है
मैंने भी कह दिया, लेने दे मजा इन्तजार का अगले जनम में तो मुमकिन है

उसने कहा, मत कर इतना प्यार बहोत पछतायेगा
मुश्कुरा के मैंने कहा, देखते हैं तू कितना मेरी रूह को तड्पाएगा

फिर उसने कहा, हटा उसे चल तुझे जन्नत की हूर से मिलवाता हूँ
मैंने कहा, आ नीचे देख मेरे प्यार का मुस्कुराता चेहरा तुझे जन्नत की हूर भुल्वाता हूँ

तिलमिलाकर कहा उसने, मत भूल अपनी औकात कि आखिर तू है तो एक इंसान
मैंने कहा "तो मिला दे मुझसे मेरे प्यार को और साबित कर कि तू ही है भगवान्"

(credits: my sister)

Thought of the day

In my school days, I used to love those calculus problems with limit x tending to infinity. It still looks funny how a delta (tending to 0) brings meaning to something totally nonsense (like 1 divided by 0).