Azim Premji Quotes

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Azim Premji

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• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Spider-Man

• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Religion
  • Masses
  • Opium

• No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Two
  • Yellow

• People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Law
  • Change
  • Financial

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Should
  • Popular

• I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Book
  • Kids

• My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Try

• In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'

  

  Laura Harrier
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Day
  • Sound
  • Engagement

• switch (ref $@)  OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained';  DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained';  NuclearWarError => die;

  

  Larry Wall
  • Die
  • King

• The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

  

  Larry Wall

• The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fire

• This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.

  

  Charles II
  • True
  • Words
  • Actions

• Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Existence
  • Case
  • Telephone

• The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Money
  • American
  • Action

• I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

  

  Joel Coen
  • People
  • Funny

• You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

  

  Azim Premji