Random Shots - Microblog Sharpeners for Your Netizen Skills: A Whetting Stone to Sharpen Your Professional Writing

Copyright © 2016 by Dr. R. Divakar, PhD.

ISBN:      Hardcover   978-1-4828-7235-4

                Softcover     978-1-4828-7236-1

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Preface

Why this book?

In this netizenship era, energized focus comes with sharp and arsenal like words and sentences for your blogs and postings.

For professionals a compact repository of crisp usages can be handy and immensely helpful for expression of fertile thoughts. Your thoughts should not remain poor cousins to your limited word and sentence power.

The book precisely helps you as ready reckoner for the sharpest usage for the context you are in..

It contains thousands of good words and sentences collected over a period of 3 decades by a seasoned development professional. The collection of sharp words and sentences is coterminous with the advent of netizenship.

This is the era where the good old concept of we write - you read from the so called traditional writers has been disappearing fast. Now it is mutuality of communication where you are also as powerful writer as someone you read about.

So this book helps unearth a potential writer in you out of your in built fertile thought processes and takes you to higher orbits of professional writing and blogging skills.

How to use this book as ready reckoner

Just randomly open book and keep on through the lines for a matching word or sentence in sync with your ongoing thought process about what you wanted to express bridging gulf between mind and finger.

That's it; you will be elevated to the next stage professional writing competency.

This book goes stronger and stronger if you enrich it with your own good finds

I have worked hard to compile so many words and usages over 3 decades for you and I have all faith that you will find a profound link in this book as you graduate to a accomplished writer.

That's how my friends have named it aptly as Random Shots.

Praise for the Random Shots

I wanted to write an appropriate sentence for my book. Divakar's compilation and random collection of good words and sentences and the huge compilation helped me to pitch in good sentences wherever needed instantly. You can also try and just brisk through the pages till you stumble upon the good piece you had in mind as thought.

Dr. Ranjit Voola,

Associate Professor

Sydney University Business School

Author of Markets and Strategy, an Asia Pacific Edition

I am a development professional and preparing professional presentations is part of my daily life. Whenever I am struggling to get a good word or sentence I go through the pages of Random Shots and adapt the core idea and contextualize to my presentation. It really helps you unearth your latent but fertile thought processes

Dr. Christopher Fredrick

Senior consultant

Asia Pacific Region, Bangkok

World Vision International

Author of several books on Development Strategies related to poverty

It's beautiful thing when career and a passion come together. Divakar's book Random Shots is precisely useful when your thoughts are derailing for want of right words and here is the book that helps keep it back on track

Dr. Kallu Rao

Associate Professor

College of Commerce

Omen

UAE

Fluid

boundaries

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Predatory markets

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia

- Alexis Carrel

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Macro fundamentals

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Finite disappointment is defeated by infinite hope

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Micro management

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Syncretic approach

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Segmenting the market

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Generic proclivity

A prayer for the day:

--Father, thou knowest I am growing older. Keep me from becoming talkative and possessed with the idea that I must express myself on every subject.

--Release me from the craving to straighten out everyone else's affairs.

--Keep my mind free from the recital of endless detail. Give me the wings to get to the point.

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Energized focus

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Meat on the bone

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Consolidating the top; fragmenting the bottom

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Swelling bottom

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Imposing new externalities

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It is poor cousins to other programs

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Matrixed management

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Alternate variant

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Spirited horse

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Targeting the determinants of gaps than out comes

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Rule of thumb training

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Let go off things not meant for you

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Key quality life indicators demonstrate value to social investors

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Inner child in both of them simply wants to connect and love the other

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To a man with hammer every problem looks like a nail

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Need to get off their high horse

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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

--- Lao-tze

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Law must respond to society's cry for justice

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Negative people have problem for every solution;

Positive people have solution for every problem

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Addictive solitude

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In admiring tone

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Profound link

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Its excellent rendition

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Unproductive stress

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Mitchell's Law of Committees:

Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.

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He unspools his charm

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Intellectual depth

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Managerial bench strength

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China aspires to India's advantage as Anglophone country

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Milking more out of innovation than manufacturing

Eg., I phone manufacturer gets 20US$ out of 600 $ for manufacturing

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Caterwauling about flight of jobs in the country

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It scavenged detritus of Detroit

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The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived

- Ann Patchett

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The President is penciled to visit the place

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Just another addition to the country's grave yard of start ups

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It is this place's ferigueur uniform

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Trying to haul themselves up by the boot straps

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The country's industrial gear heads

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Hobnob with billionaires

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In a country where failure on borrowed capital is tantamount to dishonor.....

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Pride and principle is hewed into every enterprise

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In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists

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For every Face Book and Google there are hundreds of ideas that die face down and end in zilch

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Central to its lore is not stigmatizing honest failure

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Agreeability of failure

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Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

--- Robert Zend

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To fire up tech crucibles

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World is now awash with venture money

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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

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Euphoniously dubbed

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Confection of technology and capital

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- Seal my lips when I am inclined to tell of my aches and pains, for they are increasing with the years and my love to speak of them grows sweeter as time goes by.

- Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong

- Make me thoughtful but not nosey, helpful but not bossy.

- With all my vast store of wisdom and experience it does seem a pity not to use it all, but

- Thou knowest, Lord, that I want a few friends in the end.

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Bridging the trust gap

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Hell is in the details

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Pigeon holing the poor as prudent is naïve

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Stress intolerance

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Strategic levers to meet the goals

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Financial inclusion vs. poverty reduction

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Today's greatest labor saving device is tomorrow

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Paper work is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

--- Robert J. Meltzer

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Philanthropic capital

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Light travels faster than sound, that's why some people appear bright till they open their mouth

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With blood in his teeth

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90% of politics is deciding whom to blame

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Liquid table assets

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They just make best of everything they have

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Happiest people do not have the best of everything

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Commercial like rates would price ultra poor out of markets

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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

--- Socrates

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They spend greater part of their life getting their living

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Folding into future and not extrapolating to past

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Be at peace with yourself always

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Champions do not become champions at the ring

They are merely recognized in the ring

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Misery index

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Skill of communication is hearing what is not being said

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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

--- Mother Teresa

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If we draw HDI for our ultra poor they are amongst poorest 25 nations in the world; matching low end sub Saharan Nations

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For peace of mind... resign as General Manager of the universe

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Time Plan

✓ Capture ideas, wants and needs

✓ Commit to block time and resolve your musts

✓ Schedule specific time to work on your results

✓ Compute measure and celebrate results

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To add growth lead followers

To multiply lead leaders

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Activity is not necessarily accomplishment

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Using excessive share of energy on contentious issues

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Anyone can steer the ship but it takes the leader to chart the course

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Dealing with people is like digging gold;

For 1 ounce gold you have to dig 1 tone soil

But while digging look at gold and not dirt

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Self sabotaging thinking process

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Chism's Law of Completion:

The amount of time required to complete a programming project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.

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There is no objective world - it is set of lenses through which we view the world

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Life is 10 gear cycle with many gears unutilized

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Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle

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Reserve of negative energy

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You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

--- Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

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Strengthening the weak by weakening the strong

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Failure is detour and not dead end

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Smooth sea never made a skillful mariner

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Lose inhibitions give exhibitions

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For me trees have always been the most penetrating preachers

In their highest boughs the world rustles

Their roots rest in infinity

But they do not