Mindef Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

If you can't be funny, be interesting. — Harold Ross

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power. — Helen Fisher

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days. — Bertrand Russell

I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures. — Edgar Allan Poe

You can't be the head, if you are a mediocre. — Matthew Ashimolowo

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites. — Robertson Davies

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes. — Louise Imogen Guiney

Money don't change you, it changes the people around you. — Bow Wow

Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600 million years old - was a 46 year old woman- as old as Aleyamma teaacher, who gave them Malayalam lessons. It had taken the whole of earth woman's life for the earth to become what it was. For the oceans to part. For the mountains to rise. The earth woman was 11 yrs old when the first single celled organisms appeared. The first animals, creatures like worms and jellyfish, appeared only when she was forty. She was over forty five - just 8 months ago - when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole of human civilization as we know it, began only 2 hrs ago in the earth woman's life ... — Arundhati Roy

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him. — Lisa Kleypas