Your favorite quotes

[FreshBakedPi]

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@Salman_Zaki

“The man who said “I’d rather be lucky than good” saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn’t, and you lose.”
-Match Point (2005)

Such a good movie! :k:

“What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.”

• Sheena Lyengar, *The Art of Choosing

[Bobby1]

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@FreshBakedPi

Such a good movie! :k:

“What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.”

• Sheena Lyengar, *The Art of Choosing

I love talking to high performance athletes, some of whom are just incredible in their capability and one such guy is Ben, he won a few gold medals in Kayaking at nationals and he wasn’t the biggest or strongest guy and he was saying to me that when they go into competition they are dealing with people who are all incredible and who are all hard working and who all receive great training and sometimes the guy winning, wins by a hundredth of a second and what determines who wins and the answer is the guy who wants it the most. When I used to see Ben train I could tell that he has the burning desire to win. I think because of our belief and conditioning we have already decided how we are going to see things. We do have the ability to alter how we see things and train our minds and change our neuron connections. Our conditioning is so damn powerful and we need to understand that we need to tweak, change alter or abandon our conditioning. I just watched this video and the speaker is horrendous but the information in the video helped me navigate my work days so smoothly despite very difficult people.

[Bobby1]

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@Salman_Zaki

“The man who said “I’d rather be lucky than good” saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn’t, and you lose.”
-Match Point (2005)

So is Lebron James lucky or is he good?

[pktun]

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“The same people who are candy to our eyes can be poison to our hearts.
Study their ingredients before feeding them to your soul.”

[Salman_Zaki]

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@Bobby1

So is Lebron James lucky or is he good?

Obviously, LeBron didn’t become a great player by sheer luck. But that was hardly the point of that quote.

[Bobby1]

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@Salman_Zaki

Obviously, LeBron didn’t become a great player by sheer luck. But that was hardly the point of that quote.

Most of the time your luck might depend on how hard you work and your attitude.

[Hakuna_Matata_1]

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mu na matha jinn paRHon latha..

[FreshBakedPi]

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“I keep six honest serving men
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.”

• Rudyard Kipling

[Salman_Zaki]

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@Bobby1

Most of the time your luck might depend on how hard you work and your attitude.

I’m all for having a heathly argument, but I can’t stand people who argue just for the sake of argument.

[Bobby1]

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@Salman_Zaki

I’m all for having a heathly argument, but I can’t stand people who argue just for the sake of argument.

We do have many here whose strategy in life is playing slots and lottery tickets…Good Luck.

[Bobby1]

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@FreshBakedPi

“I keep six honest serving men
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.”

• Rudyard Kipling

This is what I train my staff in, I tell them we need to know the answers to all those questions before we can present our solutions for them. I call them 5 W’s

[Hakuna_Matata_1]

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Andha kya chaahay, do aankhein…

[FreshBakedPi]

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Came across this gem the other day…

“[Before the rise of Islam] virtually all civilizations… were limited to one region, one culture, usually one race. The Islamic culture of the Middle East was the first that was truly international, interracial, in a sense, even intercontinental, and it’s contribution — both direct and indirect — to the modern world is immense.”

• Bernard Lewis

[Hakuna_Matata_1]

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Khasyani billi khamba nochay..

[pktun]

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Muft mein sirf maa baap ka pyar milta hai
Baqi,
Dunya k hr rishte k liye kch na kch chukana perta hai!

[FreshBakedPi]

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“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be the roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

• Osho

[Bobby1]

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@FreshBakedPi

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be the roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

• Osho

I am not quite sold on this, I feel people can grow strong roots even without sadness, I dont ever want to be sad, I think sadness will kill me. I have seen many great people who haven’t really faced tragedy.

[FreshBakedPi]

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@Bobby1

I am not quite sold on this, I feel people can grow strong roots even without sadness, I dont ever want to be sad, I think sadness will kill me. I have seen many great people who haven’t really faced tragedy.

I think this a somewhat naive approach to life. Sadness is inevitable and to attempt to avoid it completely would be like trying to halt the labour of a child minutes before it’s born (essential futile.) Unless of course if you plan on living in a bubble with no loved ones as the minute we attach ourselves to things, people etc we open ourselves up to their pain/struggles/sadness. I think a great deal of growth comes from struggle of all kinds. And I find your last sentence problematic for the simple reason that one persons tragedy is not the same as another… and unless you know the people you reference from birth and have been with them every day since you cannot fully know what they’ve experienced in their lives. Interesting discussion though! Some further reading: CLICK and CLICK

[Obama]

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@Hakuna_Matata

Andha kya chaahay, do aankhein…

Waisay tu Aik Ankh se be guzara hoa jaway hai!

[Anjul]

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@Obama

Waisay tu Aik Ankh se be guzara hoa jaway hai!

Kaun si ankh?
Daai ya baai?