Sunday, 18 September 2016

Captivating Lines from Here and There- 11


  • Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego. The ego may be clever but it is not intelligent. Most politicians and business people are clever; very few are intelligent.Whatever is attained through cleverness is short lived and eventually self defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence includes-  From the book "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle
  • If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy- Khallil Gibran, poet
  •  What managers expect of their subordinates and the way they treat them largely determines their performance and career progress
  • How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours- Wayne Dyer, author
  • Employees to be reliable should give up vices, become industrious,develop ability. They should be courteous, disciplined and ever willing to carry out orders-  M.K.Gandhi
  • People unknowingly sabotage their own work when they withhold help or information from others or try to undermine them lest they become more successful or get more credit than 'me'- "A New Earth"
  • Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently- Henry Ford,Industrialist
  • Excusites-The failure disease :   Four common forms of excusites are health excusites, intelligence excusites, age excusites and luck excusites- From the book "The Magic of thinking big"by David Swhwartz
  • Never underestimate your own intelligence or overestimate the intelligence of others- David Swhwartz
  • Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity- Seneca,Roman philosopher

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