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Devdutt Pattanaik Quotes

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

Devdutt Pattanaik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: indian
Birth: December 11, 1970

Topics

Community Imagination World Believe

When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy.

Shoes Waiting Feel Hands You Down

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

Best Me Nobody Know Prepare Paint

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

Book Think Doing You Trouble Six

View health as an investment, not an expense.

Health View Investment Expense

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.

Good Law Short Bad Rule Of Law Rule

I have to write. I have to be an artist.

Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I'm happier. Now I can concentrate on what I'm supposed to do, that is, training and running. Despite everything that's happened, I feel like I'm still the same person.

Training Better Feel Attention I Can

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Music I Can Numbers Hip-Hop Turn

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

Life Me Thought Grow My Life Days

My son is really good at being on trips with me. He understands what's going on. He grew up with me modeling, so it's quite normal for him to be on a shoot and in pictures because he sees me doing it.

Good Son Me Doing Modeling Pictures

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

Family Culture Society Constitution

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.

Winthrop Rockefeller

Justice People American Follow See

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