Venkatesh Quotes

#1. Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#2. learning helps us increase our store of usable information and lower risk.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#3. Most people recognize that many blue-collar jobs pay more than white-collar jobs. Few act on that recognition.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#4. I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

Muhtar Kent

#5. Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward ... just patience and faith.

Cristina Marrero

#6. To be slightly evil is to embrace life.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#7. As writers like to remark, books are never finished, they are merely abandoned. This acceptance of necessary expediency leads to the increasing doubt and anxiety characteristic of the last hours before the first significant encounter with reality: the separation event.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#8. The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#9. beliefs create or constrain possibilities, desires lead to preferences among them, and intentions represent commitments to specific courses of action. Each of the primitive elements can evolve in time, which is why mental models have momentum.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#10. So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#11. truth is also about increasing moral minimalism. As you learn more, you should have less need for moral opinions. Or

Venkatesh G. Rao

#12. Your most stable beliefs, the ones that actually modulate your behavior, aren't about life purposes; they are about momentum management. You are more likely to switch religions than to switch from an impatient to a patient temperament.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#13. And when I get mad, I always cry. It's how I've been for as long as I can remember. And I hate it.

J.A. Redmerski

#14. What critics miss, however, is that there is no such thing as non-narrative thought, free of possible worlds and ongoing enactments. There are always multiple narratives at work, framing our perceptions, memories, active thoughts, decisions and actions.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#15. Information has more power than any atom bomb.

Debasish Mridha

#16. for every complex question, there is an answer that is simple, elegant and wrong.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#17. Be nice to people and look after your relationships.

Russell Tovey

#18. To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

Fernando Pessoa

#19. Reflection is a dangerous pastime. It can lead you to rewrite your past, alter how you see your present, and tempt you down paths you never imagined you would explore.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#20. When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

Pete Seeger