“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”-Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen( APJ) Abdul Kalam was born in a small village to a boat owner and his wife. At an early age he was selling newspapers to help his family sustain themselves. His first dream to become a fighter pilot was […]
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Kalam- The Extraordinary True Story that inspired Billions
Posted: 22nd August 2015 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: APJ Abdul, birth, cardiac, essence, failure, human, kalam, life, mark, missile man, nation, nuclear, students, teacher, touch
April Fool’s Day and some funny quotes
Posted: 28th March 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: April, april fool day funniest quotes, april fool day quotes, april's fool day funny, april's fool day quotes, clever, day, doubts, einstein, fool, fool's, foolproof, funniest, mark, Plato, quotes, say, silly, twain, wise
Small April sobbed, I’m going to cry Please give me a cloud to wipe my eye; Then April Fool, she laughed instead And smiled a rainbow overhead.-Anonymous “A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.”-Anonymous A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to […]
The Sachin I know- by Harsha Bhogle(a 2009 article)
Posted: 1st April 2011 by aseem.ace in OpinionsTags: ajit, allan, batting, bowlers, century, collins, cronje, dire, distracted, donald, ethic, glasses, Hansie, harsha bhogle, india, interview, kenya, knopfler, mark, match, sachin, starry, stars, tendulkar, wealth, won, work
Sachin Tendulkar may have inspired others to write poetry but he batted in robust prose. Not for him the tenderness and fragility of the poet, the excitement of a leaf fluttering in a gentle breeze. No. Tendulkar is about a plantation standing up to the typhoon, the skyscraper that stands tall, the cannon that booms. […]
Mark Twain quotes and written lines
Posted: 18th January 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: body, boy, country, disease, finn, huckleberry, imagination, insane, loyalty, mark, opinion, sawyer, tom, twain
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and…Play consists of whatever a body is […]