Gopalaswamy Hills Quotes & Sayings

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. — John Ortberg

There are only two industries. This has always been true ... There is the industry of things, and the industry of entertainment ... After people have the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. Everything. — Neal Stephenson

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education. — Holly Near

In my long career in this historical fiction business, though, I've found that the most effective storytelling concept is this: Once upon a time it was now.
That has become my credo and my method as a longtime historical novelist.
It's quite simple, if you see as Janus sees:
Today is now.
Yesterday was now.
Tomorrow will be now.
Three hundred years ago, the eighteenth century was now.
You, as a historical novelist, can make any time now by taking your reader into that time. Once you grasp that, the rest is just hard work.
Stay with me, and you'll see how such work is done. — James Alexander Thom

We believe responsible business can be profitable business — Stuart Rose

Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs. — Christian Louboutin

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have. — Ron Paul

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. — Jim Crace

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops. — Justin Timberlake

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading. — L.M. Montgomery

It was Jesus's ideas about truth and freedom that made him dangerous to the principalities and powers. But today our gospel isn't very dangerous. It's been tamed and domesticated. If Jesus of Nazareth had preached the paper-thin version of what passes for the "gospel" today - a shrunken, postmortem promise of going to heaven when you die - Pilate would have shrugged his shoulders and released the Nazarene, warning him not to get mixed up in the affairs of the real world. But that's not what happened. Why? Because Pilate was smart enough to understand that what Jesus was preaching was a challenge to the philosophy of empire (or as we prefer to call it today, superpower). — Brian Zahnd

A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently. — Roxanne Reid