"When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city... without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Dream Quotes #Believe Quotes #Cities Quotes

“What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.”
“Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.”
“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.”

Source : "Magic numbers: can maths equations be beautiful?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2016.
“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”

Source : Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.113, Penguin Books India
“My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is that I'm thinking more about the temporal aspect of photography, rather than the visual.”
“The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.”

Source : Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
“If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.”
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

Source : "When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

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