Top 100 Ashwin Quotes
#1. Don't fall in love, it is dangerous, fall for friendship and you will find everything" Ashwin
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#2. I had lived a life, I had dreamt of, but I have lost a loved one." Ashwin
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#3. TV actress Lucille Ball once remarked, 'I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I've not done.' This
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#4. 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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#5. Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. a clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory.
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#10. Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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#11. Being intuitive is about thinking and feeling.
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#12. 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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#13. Remember that it's often easier to get forgiveness rather than permission!
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#14. A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
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#15. If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
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#17. Shooting and stabbing of victims seemed almost humane when one considered the ghastly catalogue of other horrors that had been perpetrated.
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#18. 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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#19. A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities.
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#20. Before one can stand, one needs to learn how to fall.
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#21. Our collective energies make miracles happen, not the stone idol.
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#22. Entrepreneurs are not risk takers. They are calculated risk takers.
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#23. Man has free will and creates his destiny based upon his actions.
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#25. I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
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#26. So what is the solution to acquiring confidence? It's simple. Conquer fear.
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#27. 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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#28. O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end
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#29. People think that strength is about lifting weights in the gym. It's more about getting up when you're knocked down by life.
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#30. I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.
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#31. My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
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#32. There is an old Chinese proverb: 'A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.
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#36. I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
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#37. Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
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#38. Winning is not only about strengthening yourself; it's also about weakening the enemy.
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#39. If a war-like situation persists, public sentiment will be with the government of the day. It always happens. People who would love to pull down the government's pants suddenly become patriotic!' said
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#40. 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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#41. 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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#43. 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. Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
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#45. 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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#46. If a snake isn't poisonous, all the more reason that it should pretend to be so,
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#47. Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career, Michael Schwalbe of Stanford University explains why fear gets in the way of luck.
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#48. 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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#49. Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.
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#51. Birds don't build nests on fruitless trees, whores have no love for poor men, and citizens don't obey a powerless king!
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#52. When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.
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#53. a battle is never about who's right. It's mostly about who's left!
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#54. 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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#55. American financier Bernard Baruch once remarked, 'Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. Lucky people seem to create an alternative support system - faith, prayer, hobbies, meditation, friends - to tide over their bad phases and are thus able to use such periods to the best of their abilities.
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#59. While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.
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#60. When jumbled up, the letters contained in the name Taarak Vakil now spelt out a name that every theologian in India would be familiar with. Kalki avatar - the tenth incarnation of Vishnu.
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#61. 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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#62. What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
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#63. Overcoming fear - of any sort - allows one to open up to the flow of opportunities.
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#64. There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.
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#65. My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
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#66. Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.
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#68. Albert Einstein, said, 'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
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#69. Happiness is the only thing that when you give it, you get it in return.
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#70. Good luck gets a bad rap due to superstitions.
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#71. And I often tell friends: "When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice, your inner GPS guiding you to true North.
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#72. If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.
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#73. By simply believing that their lives could be transformed, they succeeded in converting their thoughts into reality.' It
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#74. 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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#75. J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
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#76. 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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#77. I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
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#78. Opportunities flow through a network and we are much more interconnected than we care to imagine.
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#79. 'Rozabal' was theological while 'Chanakya' is political. Unlike 'Rozabal,' which was about research, the aim of 'Chanakya' is plot, plot, plot, which carries the character. The common DNA, of course, is history.
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#80. The lesson for today, dear Rakshas , is between two evils you should pick the one that you haven't yet tried.
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#81. If a man tells a woman she's beautiful, she'll overlook most of his other lies!
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#82. That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.
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#83. good lawyers know the law and that great lawyers know the judge?
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#84. Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#88. It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.
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#89. A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen!
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#90. 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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#91. One must awake, see the rays of the sun, and realise that it was all just a terrible dream.
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#92. Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.
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#93. Writer Leo Rosten famously quipped: 'Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.' The
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#94. 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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#95. While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
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#96. Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.
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#97. Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
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#98. Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
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#99. 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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#100. Words, of course, are the most powerful drug used by humanity,
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