Vivek Wadhwa Quotes
No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
Quotes to Explore
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
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You never get every job you want.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
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No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
