Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.

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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Say
  • Flowers

• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Change
  • Personality

• I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Day

• I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Amazing

• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • She
  • Amazing

• Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Why
  • Violence

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kitchen

• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Live
  • Night

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Play
  • Theater
  • University

• There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Sometimes
  • Painting
  • Shadows

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

  

  Ashley Williams
  • Challenge

• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • God
  • Reality
  • Religion

• If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

  

  George Meyer
  • Reason
  • Common
  • Planet

• I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting that because I think that comes with assumptions. I think, when I was younger, I used to make judgments about people who were super spiritual. And I think it's a very personal subject.

  

  Erin Davie
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Spiritual

• When an American veteran comes to VA, it is not up to him to employ a team of lawyers to get VA to say yes. It is up to VA to get the veteran to yes, and that is customer service.

  

  Robert Wilkie
  • American
  • Lawyers
  • Employ

• If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga