Yougov India Quotes & Sayings

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. — James P. Carse

Everything has always been permitted, even when God was around. God has nothing to do with it. — James Wood

Your success is dependent upon what you do when you do not want to. — M.F. Moonzajer

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. — Wayne W. Dyer

There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers. — Sebastian Horsley

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need." — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. — Gautama Buddha

We didn't need a special word for interactivity in the same way that we don't (yet) need a special word for people with only one head. — Douglas Adams

Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done. — John Barth

A child's imagination can inspire anyone. — Mahamad Ali Elfakir

Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced*....
If large pharmaceutical companies were able to eliminate the seasons, they would probably do so--for profit, of course.

*This does not mean that Sylvia Plath should not have been medicated at all. The point is that pathologies should be medicated when there is risk of suicide, not mood swings. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you do something that's going to get somebody a job, then they'll be able to pay for their kid's school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it's very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach. — Isabel Dos Santos