Abhishek Shetty > Abhishek's Quotes

“We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

“I am, at the Fed level, libertarian;
at the state level, Republican;
at the local level, Democrat;
and at the family and friends level, a socialist.
If that saying doesn’t convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing will.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the game

“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“It is not time that matters, but you yourself”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“We have facts,’ they say. But facts are not everything—at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The servants used to say, 'he read himself silly.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that’s just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can. That’s what they regard as the highest point of progress.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The child in each of us
Knows paradise.
Paradise is home.
Home as it was
Or home as it should have been.

Paradise is one's own place,
One's own people,
One's own world,
Knowing and known,
Perhaps even
Loving and loved.

Yet every child
Is cast from paradise-
Into growth and new community,
Into vast, ongoing
Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“What do you want to eat—the quintessential non-sequitur for South Asian parents after an argument.”
― Gabrielle Deonath, Untold: Defining Moments of the Uprooted

“After a half dozen unanswered texts and calls to my mom, I stopped trying.”
― Gabrielle Deonath, Untold: Defining Moments of the Uprooted

“However, in my new environment, I promptly realized that I was no longer too brown but now too white. My college was in a highly diverse area, and other South Asians—whom I referred to as “people who looked like me” because it felt looser and more comfortable—seemed so far removed.”
― Gabrielle Deonath, Untold: Defining Moments of the Uprooted

“She pictures clearly the gray cement floor of her parents’ sitting room, feels its solid chill underfoot even on the hottest days. An enormous black-and-white photograph of her deceased paternal grandfather looms at one end against the pink plaster wall;”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“Throughout the experience, in spite of her growing discomfort, she’d been astonished by her body’s ability to make life, exactly as her mother and grandmother and all her great-grandmothers had done. That it was happening so far from home, unmonitored”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“After a minute they continue on, toward the nurses’ station. “Hoping for a boy or a girl?” Patty asks. “As long as there are ten finger and ten toe,” Ashima replies.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“He was slightly plump, scholarly-looking but still youthful, with black thick-framed glasses and a sharp, prominent nose.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake