Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Body

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Movie

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Never

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Film
  • Easy

• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Know
  • Woman

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Help
  • Focus

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Think
  • Father
  • Myself

• The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Country
  • Leadership
  • Leaders

• A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Trying
  • Kids

• It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • History
  • Past
  • Present