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

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• 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

• 'For a word to be spoken,' Ged answered slowly, 'there must be silence. Before, and after.' Then all at once he got up, saying, 'I have no right to speak of these things. The word that was mine to say I said wrong. It is better that I keep still; I will not speak again. Maybe there is no true power but the dark.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Power
  • True

• 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

• The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.

  

  Lyndsy Fonseca
  • Happy

• I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

  

  Chris Lilley

• My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Moments
  • Favourite
  • Drums

• One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • Success
  • Fear

• Ideas come from curiosity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Ideas
  • Curiosity

• You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.

  

  Geoffrey K. Pullum
  • Thinking
  • Knowing
  • Appreciate

• 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