Pawan Mishra Quotes - Page 2

As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.

He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two—because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

Depression is a reality with everyone. What’s important is the ability to move on.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

I once heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who’d punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality.

Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division—a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver.

Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman—a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy—a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other.

We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.

A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys.

The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.

I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.

Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!

We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked—like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.

It’s our version of a black hole. Just like amply compact mass can distort space and time to cause a black hole, a sufficiently dense breach of discipline in our office causes a black hole that sucks the offender away for eternity, never to spit back!

If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.

You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

Her beauty effortlessly managed to arrest the pulse of each heart at the office and keep it in a dreamlike cage where she could have a look at each at her will and derive pleasure which, it had to be said, was a touch malicious in nature.

A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.

With the wolves around, your humbleness is your worst adversary.

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.

Like a deep sad noteplayed beneath the oceanwaving through the orbthe memories of youthe bittersweet echoesinfixed forever in my heart

Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting.

A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.

A life without sweets is not much worth living.

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things.

Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.

If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point!

Anyone can lecture from the butt, only very few can act.

There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.

When the soul heals, the issues of the body disappear like they never happened.

Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.

Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn’t you subsist only two-sided?

The most ironic thing in the world is having no say when your name is determined for the first time (which is also for the last time for most), because newborns are not necessarily known for speaking their minds.

How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?

…golf was no longer the most interesting sport to the corporate czars because they found playing with natural balls much more satisfying.

...he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else!

A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!

The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them.

To his shock, as Saarang turned the first page, the words slowly transformed into small cylinders, except for one-letter words which preferred being spheres, and started rolling toward the vertical edges of the book.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.