Vivek Chakraborty > Vivek's Quotes

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“In the Bhagavad Gita they say, "The mind under control is your best friend, the mind wandering about is your worst enemy." Make it your best friend, to the point where you can rely on it. Your mind makes you strong from within. It is your wise companion. The sacrifices you make will be rewarded. Life doesn't change, but your perception does. It's all about what you focus on. Withdraw from the world's influence and no longer be controlled by your emotions. If you can grab the wheel of your mind, you can steer the direction of where your life will go.”
― Wim Hof, Becoming the Iceman: Pushing Past Perceived Limits

“...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”
― Chanakya, The Arthashastra

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
― Sigmund Freud

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”
― Oscar wilde

“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk”
― Dr. Amit Abraham

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
― Albert Einstein

“This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Something New

“I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Time is a river, and books are boats.”
― Dan Brown

“How does he look, Jeeves?"
"Sir?"
"What does Mr Bassington-Bassington look like?"
"It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

“There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Ancient Chinese proverb,” he said, heading toward the kitchen.
“He who butt-fucks all night wakes up with sore asshole.”
― Brad Boney, The Nothingness of Ben

“You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.”
― Francois Lelord

“My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.”
― Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story