Go Kiss the World - Part 2

Now I was not able to hold myself back and completed the book today itself. So, as promised here are some more amazing quotes from it.

1. Mother Teresa once said “God does not require us to succeed, he asks only us to try."

2. In worst of the times, the job of a leader is to let his or her people know that there is tomorrow.

3. All that good parents can do is to inculcate in their children the sense that "when they make a choice, they also choose he consequences."

4. Open your mind before you open your mouth.

5. Many professionals shudder at the thought of physical displacement, yet crave rapid mobility and growth in their careers. When you are continuously displaced, you make friends easily. You have low expectations from the unfamiliar hence you are more pleasantly surprised than frustrated when faced with life's many ups and downs. You explore everything around you, develop curiosity - new lands, customs, food, and ways of doing things begin to draw you in. You learn to survive on the strength of who you are, just for this day, today. You build ingenuity in order to survive. You trust strangers and, hence, strangers trust you. You build intuitive capability to sniff trouble - which can tell you when to leave a bar! You become an interesting person, because you have lots of stories to tell. Finally, you learn to move on.

6. And finally the last line of the book - Making it in life is not about material benefits and carving individual success; it is about moving from brightness to greater brightness, while taking people along. It is not about making it big, but about making it good.

Go Kiss the World

I am reading this book written by Subroto Bagchi. He tells about his life experiences since his early childhood and is an interesting read. I am half way through and wanted to quote of the wonderful lines he has written. I am sure I must have missed some of the ones from the first half of the bok, but I will cover them in my next post.

Here they are

1. Sometimes, not handing out punishment when it is most expected is the best way to bring lasting pretence.
2. Success is your ability to rise above your discomfort, whatever your current state of wealth.
3. If one is good is in his work, the designation does not matter in the long run.
4. One has to start with a sales job to make it to the top.
5. Most people covet good jobs great posting higher salaries than their friends and a rather elusive elixir called job satisfaction.
6. Negative public opinion most often has some basis and we must have grace to accept it.
7. While it takes time to build perception, it takes even longer for perceptions to change.
8. No decision is without risk, but when you take the time to think things through, you take very few regrettable decisions.
9. The first three jobs do not shape one's career.

More will follow soon...