My collection of Quotes

1. Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers’ don’t know where they’re going."   
2. We are the One, Who get “Disabled by a Curve, Dismantled by a Glance & Devastated by a Smile”.
3. Life happens when we are busy in planning.
4. Hum hi hum hain to kya Hum hain Tum hi tum ho to kya Tum ho.
5. Ek ladki ki height kitni honi chaiye……Itni ki wo ladke ke Dil tak pahunch sake….
6. A person does what he can, until his Destiny is revealed.
7. “Maine suna hai ki Lift ki deewaron ke kaan nahi hote”
8. “I do cz I must do”
9.  “You say it best when you say nothing at all”
10.  In Boxing, the best punch is delivered a step back.
11.  The most horrible thing is not “Horror”; it’s the “anticipation of the Horror”.
12.  “Live and Let Die”.
13.  Nature has a way of denying you what you want desperately until you don't crave it any more.
14.  Life se mujhe sabkuch chahiye, aur agar kuch bhi nahi mila to bhi chalega.
15.  “EAT, PRAY, LOVE”
16.  “Lamhon ne khata ki, sadiyon ne saza payee”
17.  For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
18. Fair is what we see, Fairer what we have perceived, Fairest what is still in veil.
19. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
20. “Live free” or “Die Hard”.
21. "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,"
22. Dream till you live….Chase till you die.
23. “What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
24. “Don’t judge my emotions by my words….just look into my eyes.”
25. I look beautiful when dozen of people apply make-up on my face in front of the mirror for hours.

I feel beautiful when I do the work I like most without looking into the mirror for days.  –Anne Hathaway

26.   Journeys end in lovers meeting – William Shakespeare

27.  “A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.” – Rupert Brooke

28.  “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” – Michael D. Montaigne

29.  “Ever thine ever mine ever ours” – Ludwig van Beethoven

30.  “Love like you've never been hurt”

31.  “Cry when you lose, cry when you win, feel the sports and don’t cheat”- Roger Federer

32.  “I love fight but not violence”

33.  The art of conversation is telling someone a little less than what they want to know.

Smoker's thought

     It was late in the evening. After returning from office I was sitting in front of the window. There was dark, enough to make myself invisible. But the dim light peeping through my window drew my attention to the smoke, blemish less white. Thin layers of smoke flew upward as I could see it vanishing the higher it went. A sudden gush of wind came and scattered it to make it invisible even before its fate. Wish it could have lasted a little longer. I had started enjoying “The vanishing Act”. But soon another “Puff” brimming with smoke came out and joined it. The vanishing act of smoke suddenly came to halt and smokes were out there to replenish the dearth created by the gush of wind. From then there was no stopping. “Wind” scattered it, “Puff” replenished that and it went on.

       In this “Tug-of-war” between “Wind” and “Puff”, my cigarette was continuously shrinking and I know would shrink to its death. No regret as it is destined to do so. The fire that lit up the cigarette has burned it out but created the puff- replenishment for the vanishing smoke. The whole scene shot a question on the back of my mind- Can we give our whole life to an Idea, The idea that has been built upon the smoke of hope, knowingly that a sudden gush of wind may come and scatter it to make it as invisible as if it were never there. But these smokes of hopes come from the fire that lit up our life. Life burns to blow “puff of hopes”. You just lit up the fire and those “puff of hopes” will never let the beautiful smoke act to vanish no matter how strong the wind may be.

Faith in free people

  When we see the term “Competitive Intelligence” (let's say CI), without any second thought relate it to competitions & competitors in Market. CI as definitive can be collecting & processing of data from public sources to convert it to functional intelligence. A brief opinion on CI would tell that it is a process of gradual evolution for a firm, products, strategies etc. to survive an ever recurring competition. Again a competition can be of two types- first the competition with others; second, the competition within oneself.  CI helps us to take decisions, necessity of which of course arises due to such competitions.
  
    A decision taken can either be “Instinctive” or “strategical”. In the first type of decision making a question amuses almost everyone- how does one take decisions based on instinct? Where does she get such instinct?   Or, it's just gradual accumulation and analysis of information in someone's unconscious mind to bring out a surprisingly quick decision (doesn't it sound something similar to CI). In an article once I read that the most successful leaders are instinctual decision makers. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2013/02/18/the-most-successful-leaders-do-15-things-automatically-every-day/). Alas! Instincts of these intriguing leaders are difficult tools to analyze the CI. So to understand CI in a less complicated manner the better idea will be analyzing the “Strategical” decisions of these leaders (or Organizations).
   
    Even though CI is something intrinsic to us, a simple question always knocks my heart- is it possible to find a competition which would not require the use of “CI” to survive? If that is possible one shall not require gathering and processing information or keeping an eye on “other sources” on which her incentive will depend. When I said other source it can be anything like the efficiency of the people in an organization, willingness of producer to produce a certain thing that will be required for producing your end product (Bargaining power of Supplier), bargaining power of Consumer etc. Point to be noted that these all factors mentioned above are free to their will and respond according to the incentives. Competitive Intelligence helps us to measure the movement of these factors against their changing needs of incentives and thereby, cushioning its ill effects by enabling us to take decisions.

    It is per-determined that in due course of time this discussion will enter into a more practical and rational world, but before that can you contribute to a competition where we can let loose the above mentioned factors free to their will and yet, obtain the best result. The best way to start may be by assuming that “CI” whatever it looks like, is not at all required at any level in this world. Our per-conceived notion may tell us that this assumption will not lend us anywhere concrete, but I would like to pitch that this is not a mere assumption and can be true if we have “faith in free people”- an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom which mankind is unhappily loosing.

Lean Construction

       A jinx can be broken……as I have learned through out my child age while reading the Fairy Tales. But in real world, I found it quite tough to break or disrupt any activity which runs in a loop. I would like to explain my own words as I am also not able to comprehend the thing I have said. I just attended a seminar on LEAN CONSTRUCTION….a very touchy issue with the Civil Engineering (though it’s used more for other industries). Lean Construction as they said “is a philosophy which is obviously not an option”.

       To start with Lean Construction I would like to explain its meaning as I have learned as it’s something like that you are using your geezer in such a way that the last drop of water coming out of it is hot and for this you need not to waste any extra electricity. So now you must have got some idea about how difficult it can be to follow it. Through out the seminar I could listen only to three words- VALUE, MINDSET & WASTE        . Value is a very difficult word to explain and somewhere having a very deep meaning. So I would like to go with the other two biggies- Mindset and Waste. These two things can be interrelated with each other and I think that is the best way to do some justice to these biggies. A thing I will call it WASTE if it is of no use for me or for my MINDSET.

 So I have the veto to decide? 

       Recently I came to Mumbai for my 1st job in prestigious Real Estate Company. I confronted the most talked about issue in Rising India- the boom in infrastructure and housing. These things as they appear are bigger than my amateur thoughts. But I could easily figure out the contrast that I have never seen nor expected in my small town- the multi-storied buildings, the new face of urban India. Here I could find the so called basic amenities as well as the modern luxuries. But I still found some void that cannot be filled. Later I confessed that you can’t have everything you want and compromise is the best way to avoid it. Sorry I forgot to tell the story that made me realize this fact, it all started with the first cricket game I played here. We didn’t have playground so compromised with the landscape area of our society. For first time in my life I have seen a landscape which is 20 meter above the existing ground level and this is our playground. Though we played there for two weeks, once I asked my colleague whether there are trees at the landscape level or not and I saw his eyes filled with doubts. Then he honestly told me that he had not seen any. Next day when we inspected and we found that yes the landscape has some trees too no matter that they are there just for showoff. It instantly reminded me with the fact that why can’t we see the earth’s rotation!

      So for the sake of the ball we restricted ourselves from playing any big shots. It saved our ball from going out of boundary. And from the very next game we got accustomed to these things. We need not require any playground around our society as we can play our sports even at this landscape with little compromise. This may not be the case in my small town as we need the playground at any cost no matter how many teams may be sharing the field but we need playground.

     So if I ask to any builder to provide me with a playground or at least a landscape level at ground level so that I can free my hands playing some big shots, he will say that it would be waste of both money and time. Since it has become the mindset of the people that a landscape can come always at a certain height from ground level (as car parking is more important issue). So the builder doesn’t bother to give it a thought. In his view it is a waste. Here comes the relation between MINDSET & WASTE. A waste is decided by our own mindset and our mindset changes with the things that usually occur around us as with the earth everything rotates and we can’t figure out that the earth is rotating.

    Let us come back to the LEAN Construction which says that there should be happiness quotient for the people while saving the time and cost in a project. So in order to save the cost and time we sacrifice the happiness quotient and the builder is not the sole responsible for this. They supply as per the demands. Our mindset says that there is no need of landscape at ground level so why should a builder go for it. Later we succumb to our own. Our MINDSET altered a necessity into a waste with some compromise.

      This is the thing that usually happens in a profession. Our MINDSET changes the VALUE and it even decide what should be called as a WASTE. Coming to my very first line that VALUE, MINDSET & WASTE go in a loop; one changes the other and so does the other change another. And it is tough to disrupt a loop as it is hard to change the mind set of the people. So scope of lean construction gets even leaner. But there is a scope I admit that as shrinking mindset will blast one day as it happens in case of a dying star- either a Supernova or a Black hole.