Nandhini

“We know that, when teaching students, only the utmost care and patience will ever work: we must never raise our voices, we have to use extraordinary tact, we must leave plenty of time for every lesson to sink in, and we need to ensure at least ten compliments for every one delicately inserted negative remark. Above all, we must remain calm.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“We seek status because we don’t know our own preferences,” Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, told me. “When we don’t trust our own definition of what is good, we let other people define it for us.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

“It is not things in themselves that trouble us, but our opinion of things,” he observed.”
― John Lane, Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society