"the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute"

-- Amartya Sen

#Discovery Quotes #Choices Quotes #Identity Quotes

“A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.”
“Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love!”
“Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”
“Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put intoÂ language is indeed That which IS.”
“It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch,be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?”
“Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.”
“I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.”
“You don't have to be trained in music to create sounds and to produce and release music. That's what we were saying back in 73-74. And that's the way the world is now - and all the tools of creation, production and dissemination are there in everybody's bedrooms, front rooms and studios.”

You may also like:

Jean Dreze
Economist
John Rawls
Philosopher
Joseph Stiglitz
Economist
Kenneth Arrow
Economist
Mahbub ul Haq
Economist
Martha C. Nussbaum
Philosopher
Mother Teresa
Saint
Rabindranath Tagore
Author
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar