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

• We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • War

• 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

• I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Trying

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

  

  William Osler
  • Fool
  • Patient
  • Treats

• An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Heaven
  • Actor
  • Priest

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

  

  Azim Premji