Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

Nirmala Srivastava

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• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Love
  • Novel
  • Thanked

• I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Single

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Words

• It's just so cool to be able to go out to dinner and buy my mom's dinner now. You know what I mean? She's just done so much for me. I love that I can give back to her now because she's the most amazing woman ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Know
  • Amazing

• Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Animals
  • Dogs

• The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Law
  • Justice

• I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Home

• I don't have continuity people. I don't have clapper boards. I don't have monitors. I shoot very fast, I shoot a lot, and we just keep on going.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • People

• When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • People

• You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Together
  • Night

• The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • People
  • Long
  • Writing

• It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music

• "I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • People
  • Love
  • Learn