Ratan Tata Quotes

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

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• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Strategy

• I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Say

• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • Democracy
  • For Him

• I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Television
  • More
  • Someone

• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Logic

• Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Action

• If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Christmas

• This done, he felt a little-not much, but a little-better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Done
  • Beach

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Good
  • Evil

• In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Quality
  • Design

• People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.

  

  Eric Andre
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

  

  Chris Lilley

• Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Believe
  • Home
  • She

• It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

  

  David Merrick

• Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.

  

  The Boz
  • Football

• The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

  

  Boris Kodjoe
  • Time
  • Single
  • Paris

• "Some fool has put the head of this nail on the wrong end." "You idiot, it's for the opposite wall!" To be sure, if the space of physical objects allowed motions of translation only, and not also rotations. That space has such geometry is a fantasy; experience shows otherwise. It is only experience that makes this complaint and the rejoinder a dialogue of madmen.

  

  Abraham Kaplan
  • Experience
  • Translation
  • Rotations

• When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored pictures of gems and then forgot and shut the book so the pages all stuck together, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle didn't say, "Such a careless little girl can never ever look at the colored pictures in my dictionary again." Nor did she say, "You must never look at books when you are eating." She said, "Let's see, I think we can steam those pages apart, and then we can wipe the stickiness off with a little soap and water, like this-now see, it's just as good as new. There's nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Book
  • Pictures
  • Candy

• Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

  

  Alice Schwarzer
  • Language
  • Acceptance
  • System

• There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Leadership
  • Matter
  • Gender

• If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

  

  Ratan Tata