Ray Quotes

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.