The Art of Conversation (Being Garrulous)

I may have a habit of speaking bordering on the excessive side but I always hope that it will make others smile. Through my journey of life till now , I have come across some points that I have been able to collect and applied many of them in different situations. Sometimes, people feel confused when I use them to convey wit or sarcasm but at times, they have helped me to convey deeper things in fewer words.

• While conversing one should keep in mind two things : one , respect for the other and two, dignity for oneself.
• When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
• Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering.Swearing on the other hand,is invoking,only the witness of a spirit to a statement you wish to make.
• An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
• A sense of humor is critical for a happy life.It can ease pain,accelerate healing.reduce tension,win friends,enhance learning and make life a fun-filled adventure.
• The true spirit of conversation consists of building on another person's observation, not overturning it.
• There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
• Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
• No body is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
• I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
• People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
• Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
• Don't worry about people stealing the idea.If it's original you'll have to ram them down their throats.
• Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I like quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Friendship between Man and Woman

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.


Thanks to one of my college mates for sharing the above lines

Journalism

I met a journalist and asked the reason one takes journalism as profession. The reply was :

Journalists (read honest / real journalists) join the profession only for PASSION.
"Journalism mein na paisa hai na izzat , bas ek junoon hai."