Amitav Ghosh Quotes

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Amitav Ghosh

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• How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Bad
  • Science

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Learned

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Wealth
  • Development

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Pain
  • Better
  • New

• Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Future
  • Reality
  • inspirational

• If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Education
  • Beginning
  • Advice

• I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • War
  • Kind
  • Soldiers

• The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth

• Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Thinking

• I drove to Nashville a few times, met with some people and hung out, went to the Opry, and that kind of stuff. I made the decision - you've got to be present to win, so I packed it up and moved out here, and it's been great. It's been the best decision I ever made.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

  

  William Reddington Hewlett
  • People
  • Art
  • Past

• I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Exercise
  • Everyday
  • Gym

• I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music
  • Holiday

• To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Past
  • Present
  • Use