Avinash Kaushik Quotes
To guarantee success, spend 95% of your time defining the problem and 5% of the time solving it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
-
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
-
You either make dust or eat dust.
-
I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
-
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
-
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
-
Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
-
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
-
I'm a pro-horserace guy.
-
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
-
I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
-
I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
-
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
-
For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautiful. Motivation and dedication to the craft is what pushes me to do my best, to always strive to do better, and the outcome is always worth it.
-
I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
-
'Someone out there is waiting for you for a lifetime. You cannot afford to fail them; failing them is failing God. Remember, God is speaking to you through them, saying: 'They are fatherless, so that you can be their father.' 'They are lonely, so that you can be their companion.' 'They are in want, so that you can be their benefactor.' '
-
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
-
I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.
-
I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
-
I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.
-
Often, when we support the 'right' causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.
-
To guarantee success, spend 95% of your time defining the problem and 5% of the time solving it.
