Satya Nadella Quotes

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

Satya Nadella

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Today
  • Team

• When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Coffee

• I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • School
  • Family
  • Together

• I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Strong

• I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Stand
  • Cricket
  • Nose

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Team
  • Teach
  • Where

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • You

• Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Need
  • Mistakes

• I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Moving

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

  

  Halsey
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Team

• Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Night

• I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Focus

• To come out and lose it in overtime was tough. It's hard to swallow. They hit the boards hard, didn't turn the ball over as much as we did, and they just kept fighting. That team just kept fighting and you have to take your hat off to them.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Team
  • Fighting
  • Tough

• Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemy
  • Forces
  • Attack

• Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Law

• I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • Thinking
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