"You live it forward, but understand it backward."

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Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.11, Random House India

Abraham Verghese

#Life Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.”
“I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.”
“If God exists, there's no way he's French”
“In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.”

Source : "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.
“Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

Source : Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”
“Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.”
“...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”

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