Madeleine Albright Quotes
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.Madeleine Albright
Quotes to Explore
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
Mahesh Babu -
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino -
Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard -
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
Gavin DeGraw -
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
Felix Dennis
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
A. R. Rahman -
Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Barry Ritholtz -
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Larry Bird
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie -
Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
Ted Cruz -
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White -
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
Naveen Jain -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae
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Our eyes are always flashing sudden flicks of different pictures to our brains, yet none of that saccadic action leads to any sense of change or motion in the world; each thing reposes calmly in its 'place'! ...What makes us such innate Copernicans?
Marvin Minsky -
When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.
Mary Roach -
To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
Jean-Jacques Annaud -
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.
John Stuart Mill -
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Oscar Wilde -
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright