Here's the message another time, in different words.

http://sathyaish.net/writing/Tiny-CertificationsAreAScam3.aspx

Not much to add beyond the point, really.

http://sathyaish.net/writing/Tiny-CertificationsAreAScam2.aspx

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

- William Penn

Here's another actor added to this list. You're going to be surprised with this one. :-)

I recall vividly. It was 1993. I had just completed my 12th standard. That evening, we were watching television in our one-room rented house. I saw a man's face, unknown to me at the time.

He must've said a few other things in that interview, none of which I remember, but these words stayed with me. They made me remember his face. I didn't know why, back then.

Read the whole thing at http://sathyaish.net/writing/ActingSchool.aspx

Here's a new addition to the list:

Their new condition forced all of them to work as security guards and janitors at Titan Wheels, a local tyre factory in Scarborough, a grimly industrial area of Toronto.

He was until then a straight-A student. On his 16th birthday, he dropped out of school to work full-time and support his family. Gulping together the salival bitterness of a battered pride and smiting grief, his father took him to a local comedy club to perform as a stand-up comic.

His career had many ups and downs, and he lost several roles along the way. His story would probably make for a good 2-hour talk. He went through a severe depression in the 1980's.

Read the whole thing at http://sathyaish.net/writing/ActingSchool.aspx

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

- Henrik Ibsen

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

- Jean de La Fontaine

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

- Dante Alighieri