Naveen Jain Quotes
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
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When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties.
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I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.
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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
