“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
Alan Perlis
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
Albert Einstein
“Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler”
Albert Einstein
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
Albert Einstein
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
Aristotle Onassis
“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
Arnold Toynbee
“What we have learned is like a handful of earth; What we have yet to learn is like the whole world”
Auvaiyar, 4th C poet, India
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
Bruce Lee
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
Charles Darwin
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
Confucius
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.“
Confucius
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
George Eliot
“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
Helen Keller
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Henry Ford
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.”
Henry Ford
“When you work, work as if everything depends on you.”
J. R. D Tata
“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable.”
James Rouse
“Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values”
John W Tukey
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
Linus Torvalds
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Marie Curie
“I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If opportunity does not knock, build a door”
Milton Berle
“Challenges make life interesting; however overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
Mark Twain
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Mark Twain
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”
Margaret Heffernan
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength”
Marcus Aurelius
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.“
Michael Legrand
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things
Miyamoto Musashi
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not”
Pablo Picasso
“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
Peter Drucker
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.”
Rain
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tough times never last. But tough people do!”
Robert H. Schuller
“All glory comes from daring to begin”
Ruskin Bond
“We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.”
Rutherford D. Roger
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
Socrates
“If you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much space.”
Stephen Hunt
“Strategy without Tactics is the slowest route to Victory; Tactics without Strategy is the noise before defeat”
Sun Tzu
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Punctuality is the soul of business.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”
Vincent van Gogh
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not accidental, but must certainly be willed”
Vincent van Gogh
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
von Goethe
In God we trust, all others must bring data!
W. Edwards Deming
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible”
Walt Disney
“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.”
Walter Lippman
“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
Warren Buffet
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.“
William Shakespeare
Dr. Selvaraj Vadivelu 