Pardhu Madipalli > Pardhu's Quotes

“What you need is more important than what you want.”
― Pardhu Madipalli

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“if gambling is exciting, you’re doing it wrong.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

“Many people are not wise enough to count life’s blessings. They keep focusing instead on what the world has denied them.”
― Amish Tripathi, Sita: Warrior of Mithila

“Superior abilities... are the source of everything that is great and useful. Reduce everything to equality and you will bring everything to a standstill.

One sometimes hears the same argument expressed today in the idea that the new information economy will allow the most talented individuals to increase their productivity many times over.

The plain fact is that this argument is often used to justify extreme inequalities and to defend the privileges of the winners without much consideration for the losers, much less for the facts, and without any real effort to verify whether this very convenient principle can actually explain the changes we observe.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty First Century

“For millions of people, “wealth” amounts to little more than a few weeks’ wages in a checking account or low-interest savings account, a car, and a few pieces of furniture. The inescapable reality is this: wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence, so that some people imagine that it belongs to surreal or mysterious entities. That is why it is so essential to study capital and its distribution in a methodical, systematic way.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“there is a strong association between poverty and the level of cortisol produced by the body, an indicator of stress. And”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty & the Ways to End it

“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”
― Hafez