N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
I am struck by the incredible role played by the interplay of chance events with intentional choices. While the turning points themselves are indeed often fortuitous, how we respond to them is anything but so. It is this very quality of how we respond systematically to chance events that is crucial.N. R. Narayana Murthy
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
Rajiv Ouseph -
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
Felicia Day -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger -
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
Adam Grant -
In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
Ramez Naam
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
Olivier Theyskens -
By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
Kate Reardon -
Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
Tariq Ramadan -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
Karen Kain -
I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
Finn Wittrock
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
Sam Hunt -
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Salman Rushdie -
People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
Kate Moss -
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
Camilo Jose Cela -
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Irvine Welsh
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
Zoe Sugg -
I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.
Ki Hong Lee -
If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.
Erik Wemple -
I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
Angelina Jolie -
High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.
Anthony Giddens -
I am struck by the incredible role played by the interplay of chance events with intentional choices. While the turning points themselves are indeed often fortuitous, how we respond to them is anything but so. It is this very quality of how we respond systematically to chance events that is crucial.
N. R. Narayana Murthy