N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
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I've been very fortunate and never not worked.
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When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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In the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a still-stagnant economy, President Barack Obama faces two important questions on energy transmission: a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the question of increasing American natural gas exports. These are choices that will resonate from Crimea to Cove Point.
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The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.
