An email forward I received today. A nice read indeed!

Once upon a time an old man spread rumors that his neighbor was a thief.

As a result, the young man was arrested.

Days later the young man was proven innocent.

After been released he sued the old man for wrongly accusing him.

In court the old man told the Judge: ‘They were just comments, didn’t harm anyone..’

The judge, before passing sentence on the case, told the old man: ‘Write all the things you said about him on a piece of paper. Cut them up and on the way home, throw the pieces of paper out. Tomorrow, come back to hear the sentence.’

The next day, the judge told the old man: ‘Before receiving the sentence, you will have to go out and gather all the pieces of paper that you threw out yesterday.’

The old man said: ‘I can’t do that! The wind spread them and I won’t know where to find them.’

The judge then replied: ‘The same way, simple comments may destroy the honor of a man to such an extent that one is not able to fix  it.’

“If you can’t speak well of someone, rather don’t say anything”.

Let’s all be masters of our mouths, so that we won’t be slaves of our words.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Thoreau

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something which you have to do because he wants to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower

Pain is inevitable; Suffering is Optional.

“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
-Jawaharlal Nehru

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.

Ideas are funny little things. They don’t work unless you do.

If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you will only win.
- Shelley Long

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
- Frank A. Clark

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!
- Sasha Azevedo, Actress (1978 May 20)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Well Quoted – XXVI

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
-Ansel Adams

“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.”
–Ansel Adams

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” .
–Ansel Adams

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a significant crop.
-Ansel Adams

Your first 10000 are your worst.
-Henri Cartier-Bresson

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
-Imogen Cunningham

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
-Garry Winogrand

I always thought good photographs were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.
-Anonymous

“ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times… I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
–Elliott Erwitt

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
– Peter Lindbergh

“The important thing is not the camera but the eye.”
–Alfred Eisenstaedt

“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression.”
–Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging, which of course is important, but rather what we might call the eyenology (seeing).”
-Henri Cartier-Bresson

“I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good.”
–Anonymous

“If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
–Robert Cappa

“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.”
-Arnold Newman

“The word ‘art’ is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one’s work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.”
-Manuel Alvarez Bravo

“People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.”
-David LaChapelle

“You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus”
–Mark Twain

These are a few paper clips I saved long ago. It’s probably that moment when it strikes us and we are awestruck!

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.
– Mickey

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work or prison
– Tim

If you never want to see a man again, say, ‘I love you, I want to marry you. I want to have children…’ – they leave skid marks!
– Rita

I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
– Woody

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
– Erica

Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out of it alive.
– Elbert

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
– Wendell

In life, it’s not who you know that’s important, it’s how your wife found out.
– Joey Adams

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife findsout, she’ll kill me.
– Henry

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?
– Benny Hill

One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money!
– Edgar Watson Howe

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two
– Sir Norman Wisdom

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
– Doug Larson

A harmful truth is always better than… a useful lie!
– Eric Bolton

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that The Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
– Erno Philips

I only go to work on days that don’t end in a ‘y’.
– Robert Paul

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk; and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
– Phyllis Diller

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
– Victor Borge

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
– W.C. Fields

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
– Will Rogers

You go to school, you get a master’s degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous forplastic glasses.
- Sally Jessy Raphael

As someone rightly said, there are no secrets of success; do you know anyone who is successful and didn’t talk about it?

Behind every successful man, there is an untold pain in his heart.
-BILL JACOBS.

Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail.
-Dr. ABDUL KALAM.

Love your job but don’t love your Company because you may not know when your company stops loving you.
-NARAYANA MURTHY

You may get DELAYED to reach your Targets. But every step you take towards your target is EQUAL to Victory.
-KARL MARX

It’s better to lose your Ego to the one you Love, than to lose the one you LOVE because of EGO.
-JOHN KEATS

This one’s my favorite…

What is the Secret of SUCCESS? … “RIGHT DECISIONS”
How do you make Right Decisions? … “EXPERIENCE”
How do you get Experience? … “WRONG DECISIONS”