"Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results."

“A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.”

“When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

“Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.”

“The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.”

“All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.”

“To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.”

Source : P.B. Kerr (2010). “Children of the Lamp #6: The Five Fakirs of Faizabad”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

“Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.”

“I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.”