Nandan Nilekani Quotes
Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.
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Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.
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Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
