3 Great quotes
'People in their right minds don't take pride in their talents'
'One thing that doesn't abide by the majority rule is your conscience'
Harper Lee, 'To kill a mockingbird'
I read this book by Harper Lee about 5-6 years ago;certainly amongst the very best books i have ever read. Interesting, its the only book she ever wrote and always claimed it to be 'a simple love story'. A must read.
'The greatest wisdom is kindness'
Talmud
Tomorrow is officially my last day at IISc. Two absolutesly wonderful years, in all probability the ones i will the cherish the most in my life. Two blogs on the way - 'The Rhythmica Diaries' and the 'The CEDT Diaries'....
Prof Joy Kuri is one truly incredible man. Hats off to him !!!
3 comments:
"People in their right minds don't take pride in their talents"
Dont you think thats a little inaccurate....perhaps a line needs to be drawn between pride and vanity....
I suspect the intention was to convey the latter...
what say?
People get 'talented' either when they work hard at something over a period of time, or if they have it in their genes(in which case their parents or grandparents or... have worked hard:)
Meaning, people are good at it simply coz worked hard for it. There's a difference between 'quiet confidence' and 'open pride', if you get what i mean. We can do a thing knowing that we do it well, but need not 'talk-about'/'show-off' our abilities.
Or as covey explicitly said somewhere 'We should never behave in a manner so as to make others around us feel inferiour to us' . If that means not showing pride openly, so be it..I guess it was meant in that context(or that's my interpretation:)
Interestingly, pride is listed as one of the 7 deadly sins..
me looking fwd to the rhythmica diaries...put up yet or what?
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