February 2012
1 post
“The most beautiful things are those that madness
inspires and reason writes.”
– Andre Gide
December 2011
4 posts
“Focusing on a full bank account can be important, but we shouldn’t do do...”
– ‘Redirect’ by Timothy D Wilson
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac: On the Road.
“All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience is for it.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we...”
– Albert Einstein
November 2011
3 posts
“Although the physicality of death destroys man, the idea of death saves him.”
– Irvin D Yalom
“Art consists in limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the...”
– Chesterton
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply...”
– William Butler Yeats
September 2011
2 posts
“Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.”
– Owen Meredith
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target
no one else can...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
August 2011
1 post
“The mastery asymptote is a source of frustration. Why reach for something you...”
– Dan Pink (Drive?) If You Wouldn’t Do Your Job For Free, Then Quit
July 2011
1 post
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– ~ John Lennon (via metryingtoblog)
March 2011
4 posts
“When I was a child I used to paint like a master. Then, I spend my adult life...”
– paraphrasing Picasso
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary...”
“The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of the child at play”
– Neitzsche
“‘We dance around in a ring and suppose;
But the Secret sits in the middle...”
– Robert Frost
February 2011
5 posts
Sandeep Gautam on Quora
My profile on Quora Sandeep Gautam
Glutamate from dopaminergic neurons →
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive...”
– Paola Antonelli
The more I pine to catch your glimpse, the more you tighten your veil and ‘guise; you taunt so well, keep me on toes, I’m almost kneeling and pleading, guys, just a brief encounter, a smile- a frown- an indication that I do exist, I count, at least derision, if not love, on my frantic antics - to be a clown - and somehow catch your eyes for once,and kindle memories of days gone by;...
January 2011
4 posts
“Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss,
poems that take a...”
– ” On discovering a butterfly” Valdimir Nabakov
“I found it and I named it, being versed
in taxonomic Latin; thus became
...”
– On discovering a butterfly: Valdimir Nabakov
Nabokov Theory on Polyommatus Blue Butterflies Is Vindicated - NYTimes.com
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with...”
– http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/minding-the-body/201101/will-poem-day-keep-the-doctor-away
“People are always amazed by how much “free time” I have. They’re also amazed...”
– Robert Wenzlaff (via xixidu and wildcat2030)
May 2010
1 post
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it!
Boldness has genius, magic,...”
– Goethe
December 2009
1 post
“Determinism in the fundamental sense has ceased to be a viable concept with the...”
– Björn Brembs
November 2009
2 posts
“Adventure on, and if you suffer, swear
That the next venturer shall have less...”
– John Masefield
October 2009
4 posts
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are...”
– Charles Du Bos (via myserendipities) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via wildcat2030)
“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for...”
– Thomas Szasz
“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery...”
– B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis, 1969
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you bring everything to, every...”
– Henry Moore
September 2009
6 posts
“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he...”
– Erich Fromm
“The purpose of analysis is not treatment. That’s the purpose of psychotherapy....”
– Stephen Martin (a jungian analyst)
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me...”
– j d salinger (via @CragerInc)
“When we talk to God we’re praying, but when God talks to us we’re...”
– Lily Tomlin (an /i always though this was by Szasz!)
“I don’t know anyone who could get through the day without two or three...”
– Jeff Goldblum’s character in the movie The Big Chill
“Every normal man, woman and child is a genius at something … the problem is to...”
– Speraman
August 2009
1 post
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood,...”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Author of The Little Prince
July 2009
3 posts
“A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits...”
“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at...”
– Thomas Szasz
