Preet Singh > Preet's Quotes

“Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don’t act on it.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Herley would like to see a smart computer programmer pretend to be dumb in order to outwit a smart scammer who is also pretending to be dumb in order to find a victim who is, if not dumb, then extremely gullible.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

“Superman and the Bible are plainly cut from the same template: baby Superman and baby Moses are both rescued from certain death, sent off by their desperate parents in a rocket ship/wicker basket, and are then raised by an alien family but always remember the ways of their people and spend their lives fighting for justice.)”
― Steven D. Levitt, When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World

“To give it all up and write, hoping to effect change in a country like India, sounded mad from the start. However, I knew that without a streak of madness I would never do this. The”
― Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants

“Of course, critics asked what a novelist was doing on the serious editorial page. After all, I was no intellectual with grey hair. I couldn’t answer them. They were probably right at some level. However, this was destiny. This was meant to happen.”
― Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants

“Your vote is an important choice for your country, not an expression of love.”
― Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants

“And sometimes in life, it is about taking the better option even if it doesn’t appear to be macho.”
― Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants

“There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.”
― Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants

“the two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why.”
― Dan Luca, The 5 A.M. Revolution: Why High Achievers Wake Up Early and How You Can Do It, Too

“Reports confirm twins. ‘Thanks for saving my life.’ Foetus clasps her brother’s fingers. #finger by khadija afinwala”
― Various, Terribly Tiny Tales: Volume 1

“Scrabble evenings. He made ADVANCE. She made CONSENT. He made OUT. She made LOVE. The words leapt off the board to watch. #word by manish daswani”
― Various, Terribly Tiny Tales: Volume 1

“The symbol of dharma is the bow, which the gods gave to Prithu. The bow indicates balance — the string cannot be left loose or too taut. Prithu is described as the first responsible king of earth. This is why the earth is called Prithvi.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Ram's Secret

“Ashrama ensures that not more than two generations utilised the earth’s resources at any one time. When the grandson is born, it is time to retire, eat less food than the householder. And when the great grandson is born, it is time to become a hermit, eat what the forest, not the field, provides.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Ram's Secret

“There are many stories of Ganesha’s birth besides the one in which Shiva beheads Vinayaka. In one story, Ganesha is born when Shiva and Shakti make love taking the form of elephants. In another, Shiva creates a child of his own image for the pleasure of Shakti but since he looks too much like the father, Shakti replaces his head with that of an elephant.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Ganesha's Secret: Food alone does not satisfy hunger

“The difficult can be done
immediately; the impossible
takes a little longer.”
― Ruskin Bond, A Little Book of Life

“No friends, low grades, I’d worry about him at first. Saw him share food with a boy who’d forgot his lunch and I knew he’d turn out just fine.”
― Various, Terribly Tiny Tales: Volume 1

“This is crucial,’ his bride-to-be panicked at the altar. He braced himself for the worst. ‘You like Calvin and Hobbes, right?’ #bride by sherein bansal”
― Various, Terribly Tiny Tales: Volume 1

“Golu would eagerly wait for the drifting paper boats. He was a voracious reader. #boat by prachi manohar”
― Various, Terribly Tiny Tales: Volume 1

“If sensory recognition worked on the grandmother principle, the number of specific-recognition neurons for all possible combinations of nerve impulses would exceed the number of atoms in the universe.”
― John Brockman, This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

“Female astronaut at 40 Double PhD at 30 Gold medallist at 20 Child prodigy at 10 Killed at 0 #gold by shikhar nilabh”
― Various, Terribly Tiny Tales: Volume 1

“The blind man taught flute to orphans. His well-sighted brother sat drunk outside. One of them had eyes. The other, vision. #vision by bijaya biswal”
― Various, Terribly Tiny Tales: Volume 1

“mocking people for lying probably helps to reduce future lies and make the world a better place, whereas mocking people for things they can’t change is just being a jerk.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Assuming scientists are human, you would expect lots of peer-reviewed studies to be flawed.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect widespread fraud to happen.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“If something is legal and profitable, it will happen, a lot.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“also have a bad history with the self-checkout stations at my local Safeway grocery store. In my defense, the instructions for those things were obviously written by Russian spies as part of their plan to rip apart the fabric of our society.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“If your cave-dwelling ancestors were enamored with the beauty of the scenery instead of, let’s say, the herd of carnivorous dinosaurs stampeding their way, they would not have survived to create the miracle that is you.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“The secret to thwarting couch lock of any sort is to stop imagining everything you need to do, and start imagining the smallest step that you can do without much real effort.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Put yourself in potentially embarrassing situations on a regular basis just to maintain practice. If you get embarrassed as planned, watch how one year later you are still alive.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America