"Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train."

-- John French Sloan

#Memories Quotes #Riding Quotes #Window Quotes

“I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.”
“He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar in its manufactures, its works of genius, its medicines, its agriculture, its customs, and its policy. He only is a useful traveller, who brings home something by which his country might be benefitted; who procures some supply of want, or some mitigation of evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it.”
“The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.”
“As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.”
“I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.”
“Have you ever heard the earth breath?”
“Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.”

Source : "The UnReal Times’ exclusive analysis of Gujarat elections with Navjot Singh Sidhu". Interview with Ashwin Kumar, www.theunrealtimes.com. December 20, 2012.
“The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.”

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