Azim Premji Quotes

I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.

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• I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Community
  • Doing
  • Theater

• My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Parents
  • Smart
  • Creative

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Age
  • Own
  • Middle

• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Way
  • Spiritual
  • Intuition

• Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Morning
  • News

• I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Doing
  • Count

• I fell in love with dressing myself up.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Myself
  • Dressing
  • Fell

• I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Better
  • Name
  • Dignity

• It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Country
  • Generosity

• You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Learn
  • Fight

• Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Think
  • Own
  • Even

• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Years
  • First
  • Worse

• It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • World
  • Work
  • True

• Meum institutum non est verborum significationem sed rerum naturam explicare

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Boy

• I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

  

  E. B. White
  • Truth

• Language makes infinite use of finite media.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Language
  • Media
  • Infinite

• I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Nice
  • Sunglasses

• Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

  

  S. Azmat Hassan
  • Poverty
  • Liberty
  • Libertarian

• Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city magazines that covered the city and gave all kinds of advice and all that sort of stuff. And there were copies all over the country by the time he left. He had, however, a view of journalism that was very much, I must say, like Tina Brown's at The New Yorker. You hit 'em hard, fast, give 'em something to talk about the day after the paper comes out, as contrasted with William Shawn, who gave them something to talk about two or three years from then.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • New York
  • Journalism
  • Magazine

• Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Long

• I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.

  

  Azim Premji