Smita Nair Jain Quotes

Never listen to the haters. Work hard, and do what you love. ~ Ariel Martin

If I'm being rejected from one thing, it's really just the path redirecting me elsewhere to where I'm supposed to be. ~ Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Perhaps, what I seek now is a friend like I have never had before. Someone to share a smoke and my thoughts with. Someone who will see life with the same eyes as I do; experience the same lift of spirit when mine soars. Someone whose destiny is woven with mine even though we are bound by neither blood nor any other tie. ~ Anita Nair

A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur. ~ Naveen Jain

While some methods of calculation find that cancer and its patients take up too many resources, from another angle, cancer patients are cash cows. Each cancer patient generates millions of dollars in revenues. If one wonders why we would extend the life of a pancreatic patient for a dozen days with a $16,000 drug, let's remember that this money does not evaporate after twelve days; it continues to circulate in stock prices, salaries, and smaller crumbs of an infinitely profitable cancer pie. Just as the demon of communism justified the proliferation of a lucrative nuclear industry, so cancer fills the core of so many economies that if a cure were to be found, the economy might just crash. ~ S. Lochlann Jain

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America. ~ Mira Nair

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet. ~ Naveen Jain

Sport and singing may require talent, but passion and determination are enough to make you good at practically anything else. Your mind learns with alacrity and excels at virtually anything if it's interested enough. Every decision should start with criteria set by you; and only thereafter do you look at the options that have satisfied your criteria. Having this attitude is the only way your life becomes your own. ~ Lishen Nair

Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea & thoughts ~ Aayush Jain

A Rakshasi did not live here.
A princess did.
I was staring into the most dazzling garden I had ever seen. Cobblestone pathways meandered between rows of salmon-hued hibiscus, regal hollyhock, delicate impatiens, wild orchids, thorny rosebushes, and manicured shrubs starred with jasmine. Bunches of bougainvillea cascaded down the sides of the wall, draped across the stone like extravagant shawls. Magnolia trees, cotton-candy pink, were interspersed with coconut trees, which let in streaks of purplish light through their fanlike leaves. A rock-rimmed pond glistened in a corner of the garden, and lotus blossoms sprouting from green discs skimmed its surface. A snow white bird that looked like a peacock wove in and out through a grove of pomegranate trees, which were set aflame by clusters of deep orange blossoms. I had seen blue peacocks before, but never a white one.
An Ashoka tree stood at one edge of the garden, as if on guard, near the door. A brief wind sent a cluster of red petals drifting down from its branches and settling on the ground at my feet. A flock of pale blue butterflies emerged from a bed of golden trumpet flowers and sailed up into the sky. In the center of this scene was a peach stucco cottage with green shutters and a thatched roof, quaint and idyllic as a dollhouse. A heavenly perfume drifted over the wall, intoxicating me- I wanted nothing more than to enter. ~ Kamala Nair

It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director. ~ Sarah Gavron

I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives. ~ Mira Nair

Makeup. Fancy dresses is just temporary beauty. Confidence. Smile this stays longer. ~ Sarvesh Jain

If you can explain, then it's not the Dream. The dream can never be put into words, it can only be felt through the heart ~ Sarvesh Jain

Sorry & Thanks are the only two words in the dictionary of life wherein its presence connects two strangers, and its absence departs two loved ones. ~ Swati Jain

I don't need my
Other-half,
I'm not a
HALF... ~ Natasha Jain

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. ~ Mira Nair

Once you realise how great it is to love someone, and be loved equally or higher. Life will never be the same. ~ Sarvesh Jain

My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck. ~ Naveen Jain

If you allow someone to be disrespectful to you today, they'll be disrespectful to you tomorrow also, and the day after that, and the day after that and so on. ~ Sarvesh Jain

Don't let anyone discourage you. Let alone your parents. ~ Sarvesh Jain

Everyday starts as a repetition of the previous day & ends so with the hope that tomorrow will be no different. ~ M.T. Vasudevan Nair

We all have our
state of mind-
happy or sad,
sources of both
are so relatable.
Despite showing
someone's faults & flaws
we need to cherish them.
cause, we all are into an
e n d l e s s
l o o p. ~ Ayushi Jain

Being happy makes you look beautiful, no matter what logo you wearing ~ Sarvesh Jain

It is not necessary that every mountain has a precious stone's mine, every elephants forehead is adorned with the mother of pearl, every place is inhabited by gentlemen and every forest contains sandalwood trees. In other words, this world is inhabited by people of different characteristics. We must, therefore, develop contacts only with gentlemen and superior persons. This will ensure fulfilment of the desired work. ~ R.P. Jain

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.' ~ Mira Nair

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since. ~ Naveen Jain

Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business. ~ Naveen Jain

They cry because they care about your opinion, but you don't. ~ Aryan Jain

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be. ~ Virchand Gandhi

Hate dissevers takin and goral, black bear and beaver, deer, leopard and dragonfly harboured by this hermitage, hate blanches your still- human eyes, flows down larynx and pharynx and trachea, leadens the breath and whirlpools memory's voice till all you know all you feel all you seek is nothingness. ~ Karthika Nair

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. ~ Mira Nair

Everyday I reach to a place where there is my name on the door. It's been a while, didn't reach my home. ~ Sarvesh Jain

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on. ~ Mira Nair

If you can't convince you're normal, convince they're weird too. ~ Sarvesh Jain

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring. ~ Mira Nair

Sometimes you don't have to look deep to cherish beauty. ~ Sarvesh Jain

Everyone you meet is hurt, broken and fighting a hard battle. Please don't be an ass. ~ Sarvesh Jain

Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building. ~ Anita Nair

Destroy the one who thinks you can be destroyed. You're invincible. Nothing destroys you. Nothing. ~ Sarvesh Jain

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others. ~ Naveen Jain

When was the last time you kissed somebody new. If you can tackle that fear, you've nothing to fear. ~ Sarvesh Jain

People have a courage to die, but don't have a courage to live. ~ Sarvesh Jain

The money will always be a problem even if you're a multi-billionaire. Be happy with what you do. ~ Sarvesh Jain

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed. ~ Naveen Jain

sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life ~ Sadashivan Nair

I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson. ~ Naveen Jain

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ~ Mira Nair

If you're too afraid to make mistakes and blunders, then better stay at your 6 by 6 cell and follow the one who is ready to make. ~ Sarvesh Jain