Persist If You Lack Talent

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Give Autonomy to Motivate

A sense of autonomy has a powerful effect on individual performance and attitude … Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

- Dan Pink (Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us)

Don't Judge Me... Because You Don't Know Me

Before you start to judge Me, remember this, you don't know me, you don't know what I've been through. you have no idea what made me who I am today. Please shut up.

- Heath Ledger

Recently, he was flying from Dubai to Mumbai. A brooding man sat next to him, behaving strangely and rudely and thwarting all communication. When the flight landed, he demanded to disembark first, ahead of business class passengers. Some got irritated and asked him what the matter was. 

The passenger said his wife and child had died in an accident and he was going home to claim the bodies — hence the urgency. “That day, I realised I shouldn’t judge anybody,” recalls Sivanand.

- An anecdote by Mohan Sivanand, Editor of Reader's Digest India, in Forbes India, 9 October 2009

Sweeping under the Carpet

Everything we run away from has power over us.

- Joyce Meyer, American writer

Man Creature of the Times

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

 ― Voltaire

समय (युग) आपको गढ़ता है. 

Intelligence vs Kindheartedness

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel [Jewish theologian and philosopher]