Doris Lessing Quotes
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
Gautam Adani -
I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
Saina Nehwal -
I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
Barry Humphries -
It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
Natalia Makarova -
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
I don't ever take anything for granted.
Kate Mara
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
Larry Elder -
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein -
I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
Faith Prince -
Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
Dan Hill -
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
Dan Kaminsky -
Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
Nancy Duarte
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
Fran Tarkenton -
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
Abraham Maslow -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
I think that I've had a very strange life.
Joanne Rowling -
There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
Randi Weingarten -
Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
Kamala Harris
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
Ramakrishna -
I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.
Piyush Goyal -
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
Alexandra Fuller -
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.
Flannery O'Connor -
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.
Doris Lessing