Top 100 Ashwin Sanghi Quotes
#1. It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.
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#2. luck is not entirely about chance; it's about the human ability to spot opportunities and make the most out of them.
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#4. Happiness is the only thing that when you give it, you get it in return.
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#6. When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
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#7. Overcoming fear - of any sort - allows one to open up to the flow of opportunities.
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#8. Rule number one: your accounts must always present a true and factual picture of your business operations.' 'And what's the other rule?' asked Arvind. 'Rule number two is to occasionally forget rule number one.
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#9. RAISE How can we raise the number of opportunities that come our way? RECOGNIZE How can we recognize these opportunities better? RESPOND How can we better respond to the recognized opportunities?
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#10. Acharya, is war the only solution to political differences?' 'Wise pupil, politics is war without bloodshed and war is simply politics with bloodshed.
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#11. The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.
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#12. a battle is never about who's right. It's mostly about who's left!
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#13. Words, of course, are the most powerful drug used by humanity,
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#14. Politics is like a stage. Each politician plays his part according to the lines that are given to him. But backstage, the hero and the villain enjoy their drink together. Everybody
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#15. While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
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#16. I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?
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#17. Writer Leo Rosten famously quipped: 'Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.' The
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#18. What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.
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#19. The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.
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#20. Sometimes we are so focused on winning the race that we do not realize that we may possibly be in the wrong race. My
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#21. Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.
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#22. If a man tells a woman she's beautiful, she'll overlook most of his other lies!
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#23. Opportunities flow through a network and we are much more interconnected than we care to imagine.
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#24. It is the manner of death that reveals the importance of a man. Ordinary people are murdered while extraordinary people are assassinated.
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#26. Man has free will and creates his destiny based upon his actions.
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#27. Entrepreneurs are not risk takers. They are calculated risk takers.
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#28. Our collective energies make miracles happen, not the stone idol.
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#29. Before one can stand, one needs to learn how to fall.
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#30. Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
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#32. If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
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#33. I am defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things.
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#34. Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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#35. a clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory.
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#36. Learning to trust your instincts, using your intuitive sense of what's best for you, is paramount for any lasting success.
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#37. Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!
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#38. Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.
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#39. There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
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#40. A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
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#41. What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.
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#42. Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
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#44. A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.
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#45. Harvard University psychologist William James summed it up beautifully. 'The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.' This
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#46. To many he was known as Kautilya - the crooked one; to his childhood acquaintances he was Vishnugupta; but to most he was Chanakya - illustrious son of the great and learned Chanak, the most renowned teacher in all of Magadha. He
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#47. We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.
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#48. I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
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#49. In life 99% is about good luck. The remaining 1% is about bloody good luck.
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#50. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in life.
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#51. Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
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#52. When lions fight over a goat, it's usually the hyena that gets away with the prize.
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#53. The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants. As long as there is a greater fool around the corner willing to pay a higher price, the value will continue to rise,
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#54. Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
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#55. between two evils you should always pick the one that you haven't yet tried. I
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#56. Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?
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#57. There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.
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#58. The kindest word in the world is the unkind word left unsaid.
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#59. Lord Rama renounced his kingdom and became the most powerful king in the land. Buddha renounced the world and the world fell at his feet. Cornelia, my innocent girl, please do not believe that renunciation is to forsake power. Rather, it's the very means to power!' Chandragupta
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#60. It is impossible to know when a fish swimming in water drinks some of it. Thus it's quite impossible to find out when government servants in charge of undertakings misappropriate money.
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#61. When I wrote 'The Rozabal Line,' I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed 'The Rozabal Line' as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.
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#62. Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.
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#63. Some animals hunt. Others hide. And a few hunt while they hide.
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#64. There's a significant difference between lying and delaying the truth!
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#65. At the end of the day, all humans were merely skull and bones.
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#66. Everything is going to be right at the end. If it's not right, then it is not the end.
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#67. Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
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#68. Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.
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#69. I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
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#70. Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.
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#71. Wise men think all they say, fools say all they think.
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#72. Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.
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#74. The relationship between the critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue or the dog and lamp post.
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#75. Tina Seelig, author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20,
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#76. What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.
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#77. Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the two World Wars and quite a lot of controversy, was an author who never gave up.
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#78. I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
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#79. I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.
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#80. Eventually, the British came to overrule India because there was too much diversity in our unity. They were great expotents and impotents. They started by expoting salt from India and then impoting cloth.' One of the more difficult questions related to Chanakya,
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#81. In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.
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#82. What should a man strive for? Kama - love, dharma - duty, artha - wealth, and moksha - salvation.
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#83. What if life's opportunities are like rainfall, and we human beings are like houses? What if some of us have the ability to 'catch' opportunities as they fall, but others do not have the required 'infrastructure' to trap opportunities?
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#84. The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
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#85. In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.
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#86. It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
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#87. the wily Machiavelli had always believed that any clod could have the facts - having an opinion was an art.
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#88. I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.
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#89. Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
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#90. I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.
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#91. I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
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#92. Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.
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#93. I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
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#94. Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
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#95. Vipassana proponents always stress that if you are insulted by someone and get angry, the result is not the abuser's fault. It is your fault because you choose to react.
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#96. My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
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#97. I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
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#98. It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.
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#99. After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
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#100. My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
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