Thursday, 31st December, 2015

Sudha Murthy-Social Worker

Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set. Nor are there model answer papers. - Sudha Murty

Sudha Murthy (born 1950) is an Indian social worker and writer in the Kannada and English languages. Murthy began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer. - Wikipedia
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Wednesday, 30th December, 2015

Samuel Johnson-Writer

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. - Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, byname Dr. Johnson   (1709-1784), English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters. - britanica.com

Tuesday, 29th December, 2015

Ludwig van Beethoven-Composer

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. -  Wikipedia
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Monday, 28th December, 2015

George Eliot-Novelist

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880) known by her pen name George Eliot, is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. - Wikipedia.

Sunday, 27th December, 2015

Brené Brown-Scholar

We think we'll feel better after pointing a finger at someone or something, but nothing changes. - Brene Brown

Brené Brown (born 1965) is an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. - Wikipedia

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Saturday, 26th December, 2015

Henri Matisse-Artist

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (1869-1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. - Wikipedia
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Friday, 25th December, 2015

Gustave Flaubert-Novelist

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. - Wikipedia
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Thursday, 24th December, 2015

Mae West-Actress

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. - May West

Mary Jane "Mae" West (1893-1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades. - Wikipedia

Wednesday, 23rd December, 2015

Jack Nicklaus-Golfer

Focus on remedies, not faults. - Jack Nicklaus

Jack William Nicklaus, nicknamed "The Golden Bear", (born 1940) is a retired American professional golfer. He is widely regarded as the greatest professional golfer of all time. - Wikipedia
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Tuesday, 22nd December, 2015

Michelle Payne-Jockey

Every young kid growing up, female or male, you have to follow your dreams because dreams do come true. - Michelle Payne

The very first female jockey to win Australia's prestigious Melbourne Cup horse race, which was first run in 1861, offers some inspiration for the young.

Michelle Payne (born 1985) is an Australian jockey. She won the 2015 Melbourne Cup, riding Prince of Penzance, and was the first female jockey to win the event. - Wikipedia

Monday, 21st December, 2015

Carson McCullers-Novelist

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. - Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the U.S. South. - Wikipedia
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Sunday, 20th December, 2015

Daniel Goleman-Author

If we can tune in, then we can empathize. - Daniel Goleman
Daniel Jay Goleman (born 1946) is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. - Wikipedia
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Saturday, 19th December, 2015

Heraclitus-Philosopher

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. - Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus (535BCA-475BCA) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. - Wikipedia

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Friday, 18th December, 2015

Susan Sarandon-Actres

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. - Susan Sarandon

Susan Abigail Sarandon (born 1946) is an American actress. She is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner who is also known for her social and political activism for a variety of liberal causes.- Wikipedia
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Thursday, 17th December, 2015

Wassily Kandinsky-Painter

Colour is a means of exerting direct influence on the soul. - Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1886-1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first purely abstract works. - Wikipedia

Wednesday, 16th December, 2015

Kapil Dev-Cricketer

If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. - Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj, better known as Kapil Dev (born 1959) has been one the greatest all rounders in World Cricket history. He scored more than 5000 runs and took more than 400 wickets in test cricket. He went on to become the highest wicket-taker, breaking the record of Richard Hadlee. In the league match against Zimbabwe, he led by example when five Indian wickets had gone for 17 runs and went on to score 175 runs single handedly. Under his captaincy, India won the World Cup for the first time in 1983.
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Tuesday, 15th December, 2015

Anna Pavlova-Ballerina

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theatre. It lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment. - Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (1881-1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world. - Wikipedia
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Monday, 14th December, 2015

Walt Disney-Entrepreneur

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right. - Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (1901-1966) was an American entrepreneur, cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer. - Wikipedia

Sunday, 13th December, 2015

Srinivasa Ramanujan-Mathematician

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God. - Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar FRS (1887-1920) was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. - Wikipedia
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Saturday, 12th December, 2015

Mokshagundam Visvesvaray-Engineer

It is better to work out than rust out. - Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya [This was quoted in 'Our Leaders' and he said this when he was at the age of 102]

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, KCIE (1860-1962) was an Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918. He is a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. - Wikipedia
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Friday, 11th December, 2015

Praksh Tandon-Indian Corporate Manager

Greatest tasks have been performed by men using simple Common sense. - Praksh Tandon
Praksh Tandon (1911-2004) was an Indian Corporate Manager.He was Chairman cum Managing Director the first Swadeshi Bank known presently as Punjab National Bank. Before that he was chairman of State Trading Corporation and First Indian Chairman of Unilever ( Hindustan Lever Ltd.). He made HLL truly Indian not only in name but also in spirit. There was a genuine realisation in London, and a sense of pride in Bombay that Indians could manage the company. He was also on the Board of Directors of Food Corporation of India,Hindustan Steel, Hindustan Aeronautics and Reserve Bank Of India.

He also taught at universities in Berkeley, Boston, California, Chandigarh, Delhi and Ahmedabad. He was aslo a founding Director of IIM Ahemdabad. 

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Thursday, 10th December, 2015

Miguel de Cervantes-Novelist

There is no sauce in the world like hunger. - Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, often simply called Cervantes, (1547-1674) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. - Wikipedia

Wedensday, 9th December, 2015

Maxim Gorky-Writer

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. - Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. - Wikipedia

Tuesday, 8th December, 2015

W. Somerset Maugham-Playwright

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. - W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham CH (1874-1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s. - Wikipedia.
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Monday, 7th December, 2015

Alexander Calder-Sculptor

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. - Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. - Wikipedia

Sunday, 6th December, 2015

K. Kamaraj - Indian Politician

Face the problem. Don't evade it. Find a solution, however small. People will be satisfied if you do something. - K. Kamaraj
Kumarasami Kamaraj, better known as K. Kamaraj, (1903-1975) was an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu widely acknowledged as the "Kingmaker" in Indian politics during the 1960s. - Wikipedia
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Saturday, 5th December, 2015

Yasunari Kawabata-Novelist

Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere. - Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (1889-1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. - Wikipedia
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Friday, 4th December, 2015

Günter Grass-Novelist

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. - Gunter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (1927-2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Grass, who considered himself to be Kashubian, was born in the Free City of Danzig. - Wikipedia
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Thursday, 3rd December, 2015

Chinua Achebe-Novelist

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart was considered his magnum opus, and is the most widely read book in modern African literature. - Wikipedia
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Wednesday, 2nd December, 2015

Umberto Eco-Novelist

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco OMRI (1932-2016) was an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa. - Wikipedia
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Tuesday, 1st December, 2015

Malala Yousafzai-Activist

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. - Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai S.St (born 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. - Wikipedia
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