Gauri Khan Quotes
Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.
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I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.
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Humankind is conceived as primarily motivated by neurochemically mediated emotions resulting from genetic make-up and environmental influences, employing reason and engaging in conscious reflection only occasionally.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?
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Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.
