Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.
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Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.
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If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.
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My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.
