Jayakrishnan Ramachandran Quotes & Sayings

The aim of intelligence is to put the whole goddamned human race out of work. — Robert Sheckley

The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders? — Robert K. Greenleaf

It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain. — Willa Cather

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. — Louis Kronenberger

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is. — Trent Reznor

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world. — Siobhan Davies

Altruist: a person who likes to help people more than they like to be helped. — Marty Rubin

In some circumstances, a focus on extrinsic rewards (money) can actually diminish effort. Most (or at least many) teachers enter their profession not because of the money but because of their love for children and their dedication to teaching. The best teachers could have earned far higher incomes if they had gone to banking. It is almost insulting to assume that they are not doing what they can to help their students learn, and that by paying them an extra $500 or $1,500, they would exert greater effort. Indeed, incentive pay can be corrosive: it reminds teachers of how bad their pay is, and those who are led thereby to focus on money may be induced to find a better paying job, leaving behind only those for whom teaching is the only alternative. (Of course, if teachers perceive themselves to be badly paid, that will undermine morale, and that will have adverse incentive effects) — Joseph E. Stiglitz

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team. — Dennis Rodman

There is a God we want and a God who is, and the two are not the same. — Ligon Duncan

The state is captive to vested interests. — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Nothing else dangerous we could find. Other than Wayne's body odor." "That's the smell of incredibleness," Wayne called from inside. — Brandon Sanderson

Here is the first guest, a young woman in a short blue dress. Her face is a trifle on the vacant side but she's got a knockout bod. Somewhere inside that dress, Hodges knows, there will be the sort of tattoo now referred to as a tramp-stamp. Maybe two or three. The men in the audience whistle and stomp their feet. The women in the audience applaud more gently. Some roll their eyes. This is the kind of woman you don't like to catch your husband staring at. — Stephen King

In what world are you living?" "The one you're in, of course. — Summer Devon

The story is not in the plot but in the telling. — Ursula K. Le Guin