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.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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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.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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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.
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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.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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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.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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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.
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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I'm constantly learning with each new job, especially about people, which is important for playing characters.
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That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
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Contraception is a couple's issue.
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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.
