While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.