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"Undepromise and over deliver" "Have you ever seen the driver of an ambulance being questioned by the traffic police? We need to behave like an ambulance... Of course there will be problems but we will find solutions and move ahead. Don't brood over problems. Let's solve them" This is quintessential Ghosh - an entrepreneur who believes in action, more a doer than a thinker - a doer, driven by strong, earthy common sense.  Ghosh used to keep the executives of RBI, even remotelt connected with rural credit informed of every step he was taking, even though he was not required to do so. He would send a monthly progress report to all of them, even though they might not read those and gave feedback only occassionally. This illustrates his extreme sincerity, clarity of purpose and uncanny knack for building relationships with everybody who matters. Indeed, he is very much a relationship man. ASA International's Haque told me that every time his team

Devi's dead father's spirit to Devi in her dreams when he is watching a tennis game show on TV -  "This is Jack EnRoe. He is my favorite player. Just look at him. He doesn't let anyone push him . Look at him, giving it back to that umpire. He's a firecracker. Just like you. " Paxton is pissed with Devi for two timing and breaking his hand at her party. He makes her do his homework as he has lost his swimming scholarship that he has worked so hard for, because he hurt his arm coz of her heartbreak at her party. Rebecca (his autistic sister) finds out. She loves him and gives him a reality dose.  Rebecca: You're making Devi do your homework?  Paxton: Its not what you think. You don't understand Rebecca. She is the reason on don't have any....  Rebecca:... Dignity?  Paxton: No.. Ouch Rebecca.. Jesus.. Shes the reason I don't have a chance at a scholarship anymore. She is the one responsibile for this. It makes sense for her to help me. She owes me

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten " - G. K. Chesterton I'd wanted to write a story for my daughters that told them something I wished I'd known when I was a boy: that being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.  Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she had met made any sense. She sometimes wondered who they thought they were talking to.  "You people are spread all over the place. Cats, on the other hand, keep ourselves together. If you see what I mean?" ( Dialogue by a talking cat to Coraline)  Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.  She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the

true justice is paying only once for each mistake. true injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.  in your whole life, nobody has abused you more than you have abused yourself. and thr limit of your self abuse is exact the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone eabuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. but if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourseld, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.  the most important agremeents are the ones you make with yourself. in these agreements, you tell yourself who you are, what you feel, what you believe and how to behave. the result is what you call your personality. in these agreements, you tell yourself, "this is what I am. this is what I believe. there are certain things I can do, and some things I cannot. this is fantasy, this is reality; this is possible, that is impossible." The first agree

  there is a popular saying, a paraphrase of Robert Frost's poem: "the only way out is through". the only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through  it, not around it.