Tuesday, 31st May, 2016

Plato-Philosopher

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Plato

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. - Wikipedia

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Monday, 30th May, 2016

Renuka Aradya-Entrepreneur

I took a lot of risks, which thankfully paid off. - Renuka Aradhya

Renuka Aradhya was born in a poor family in a village in Bengluru. He has seen the kind of poverty that put him on streets to beg. He even dropped out in 10th standard. But he kept pushing forward trying his luck without risk of failure. But today his company has a turnover of Rs30 crore and employs 150 people. - yourstory.com

Sunday, 29th May, 2016

Kishore Biyani-Entrepreneur

A manager always fears making a mistake and that is where he differs from an entrepreneur.  - Kishore Biyani

Kishore Biyani (born 1961) is an Indian business tycoon. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Future Group. He is the founder of Big Bazzar. 

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Saturday, 29th May, 2016

Arthur Ashe-Tennis player

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe

Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (1943-1993) was an American World No. 1 professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles, ranking him among the best tennis players from the United States. - Wikipedia

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Friday, 27th May, 2016

Ramakrihna ParamaHamsa-Indian Guru

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer. - Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-1886) was an Indian mystic and yogi during the 19th century.He was the Guru of Swami Vivekananda, who founded Ramakrishna Mission. - Wikipedia.

Thursday, 26th May, 2016

Ravi Shankar-Musician

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised. - Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was an Indian musician and composer best known for popularizing the sitar and Indian classical music in Western culture. - biography.com

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Wednesday, 25th May, 2016

Mahabharata-Indian Epic

Truth should not be spoken if its motive is to deceive. Lie may be spoken if its motive is to help. - Mahabharata

The Mahabharata is a major Sanskrit epic of ancient India authored by Sage Vyasa. It is a narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes. 

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Tuesday, 24th May, 2016

Thomas Szasz-Psychiatrist

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz 

Thomas Stephen Szasz (1920-2012) was a distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism. His books The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) and The Manufacture of Madness (1970) set out some of the arguments most associated with him. - Wikipedia

Monday, 23rd May, 2016

Ruskin Bond-Author

On books and friends I spend money;

For stones and bricks I haven't any. - Ruskin Bond 

Ruskin Bond (born 1934) is an Indian author of British descent. He lives with his adopted family in Landour, in Mussoorie, India. - Wikipedia

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Sunday, 22nd May, 2016

Homi J. Bhabha-Physicist

My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me. My success will be what I make of my work. - Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909-1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. - Wikipedia

Saturday, 21st May, 2016

Rahul Dravid-Cricketer

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries. - Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid (born 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain, Hailed as The Wall, he was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000 and received the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year awards at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004. In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra. - Wikipedia

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Friday, 20th May, 2016

Simone Weil-Philosopher

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. - Simone Weil

Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, and political activist. After her graduation from formal education, Weil became a teacher. -Wikipedia

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Thursday, 19th May, 2016

The Flying Sikh -Milkha Singh

I would not stop till I had filled up a bucket with my sweat. I would push myself so much that in the end I would collapse and I would have to be admitted to hospital, I would pray to God to save me, promise that I would be more careful in future. And then I would do it all over again. - Milkha Singh

The Flying Sikh, Milkha Singh (born 1935) is probably India’s first sports super-hero post-independence. A winner of four gold medals in the Asian Games, the race for which Singh is best remembered is his fourth-place photo finish at the 1960 Rome Olympics. - msn.com

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Wednesday, 18th May, 2016

Manoj Bhargava-Businessman

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world. - Manoj Bhargava

Manoj Bhargava (born 1953) is an Indian American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC, the company is known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink. - Wikipedia

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Tuesday, 17th May, 2016

Sarojini Naidu-Poet

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease. - Sarojini Naidu 

Sarojini Naidu, born as Sarojini Chattopadhyay also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India,(1879-1949) was an Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu served as the first governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.She was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so.- Wikipedia.

Monday, 16th May, 2016

Brian Tracy-Author

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. - Brain Tracy

Brian Tracy (born in Canada in 1944 ) is a self-development authority, which is recorded and videotaped many performances and their works into an electronic format. His audio programs and DVDs are sold in dozens of countries. - Wikipedia

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Sunday, 15th May, 2016

Terry Pratchett-Author

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (1948-2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. - Wikipedia

Saturday, 14th May, 2016

Rigveda-Indian Sacred text

People who are soft spoken and truthful are loved by all - Rig Veda

The Rigveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. The text is a collection of 1,028 hymns and 10,600 verses, organized into ten books. - Wikipedia

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Friday, 13th May, 2016

V. V. Giri-Former President of India

The parliamentary system is the most responsive and responsible system of government. Let us not allow it to go into disuse. - V V Giri

Varahagiri Venkata Giri, commonly known as V. V. Giri, (1894-1980) was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 24 August 1974. He was was the soul of the Indian Labor movement. He was noted for his oratorical kills. He was also a prolific writer who has written books on "Industrial Relations" and "Labor problems in Indian industry". - Wikipedia and iloveindia.com

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Thursday, 12th May, 2016

Guru Nanak-Guru

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated. - Guru Nanak

Guru Nanak (1469-1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated world-wide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November. - Wikipedia

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Wednesday, 11th May, 2016

Dhirubhai Ambani-Tycoon

Think big, think fast. Ideas are no one's monopoly. - Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirajlal Hirachand "Dhirubhai" Ambani (1932-2002) was an Indian business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries in Bombay with his cousin. He had been figured in the The Sunday Times top 50 businessmen in Asia. - Wikipedia

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Tuesday, 10th May, 2016

Satyajit Ray-Filmmaker

There's always some room for improvisation. - Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was an Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. - Wikipedia

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Monday, 9th May, 2016

Henry David Thoreau-Philosopher

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. - Henry David Thoreau 

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) wasvan American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, Henry David Thoreau was a New England Transcendentalist and author of the book Walden. - biography.com

Sunday, 8th May, 2016

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (born 1954) is one in Canada north of Toronto living writer , she worked as a social worker in the field of crisis management. The name Mountain Dreamer is her given spiritual name, not her birth or marriage name. The author's name on recent English original editions (from 2006) is only Oriah because the name Mountain Dreamer constantly led to demands. The German editions bear the full Author Title Oriah Mountain Dreamer.

Saturday, 7th May, 2016

Eva Perón-Film actress

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. - Eva Perón

María Eva Duarte de Perón (1919-1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. - Wikipedia

Friday, 6th May, 2016

Sigmund Freud-Neurologist

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. - Wikipedia

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Thursday, 5th May, 2016

Guy de Maupassant-Writer

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. -Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies. - Wikipedia

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Wednesday, 4th May, 2016

Henri Poincaré-Mathematician

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. - Jules Henri Poincaré

Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science. - Wikipedia

Tuesday, 3rd May, 2016

Washington Irving-Short story writer

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. - Wikipedia 

Monday, 2nd May, 2016

Sherry Turkle-Professor

The most interesting thing in the environment is your own mind.- Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle (born 1948) is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Wikipedia

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Sunday, 1st May, 2016

Indira Gandhi-former Indian Prime Minister

My grandfather once told me there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group; there was much less competition. - Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini (1917-1984) Gandhi was a key 20th century stateswoman, a central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. - Wikipedia

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