Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

If you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body...." -ABDUL KALAM..

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.