Satya Nadella Quotes

You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
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  • Childhood

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Will
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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Have
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• I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Voice
  • Loved

• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Change
  • End
  • Understand

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Me
  • Never
  • Notes

• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Professional
  • Manager
  • Farm

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Chance
  • Motivated

• There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Mad
  • Sane
  • Madman

• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  

  Ovid
  • Born
  • Praise
  • Ancient

• When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Nice

• Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Regret
  • Bold

• The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Movie

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • World
  • Trying
  • School

• You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Sentences