Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

My guess is that while the elites would like cleaner air, they are not willing to give up the convenience of being able to use their cars at will to get it, perhaps because they believe (I suspect incorrectly) that they can protect themselves from the consequences of vehicular pollution by investing in air-conditioners and air purifiers. ”

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world. ”

I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people's concerns. ”

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please. ”

If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing. ”

Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people. ”

I have learnt an enormous amount from talking to people on the ground. ”

One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point. ”

In my own work, I have written about how our public sector bank officials avoid making any new lending decisions - because lending always exposes them to some (infinitesimal) risk of being blamed for the loan going wrong. ”

Good intentions and grand theories do not make a good programme. Programmes work best when they're based on a detailed und­er­standing of the problem being solved and how they are implemented on the ground. ”