Azim Premji Quotes
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
Quotes to Explore
-
People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
-
If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
-
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
-
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
-
I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
-
Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
-
I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
-
If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
-
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
-
Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessity of painting.. .His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. These path leads only into painting.
-
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
-
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
-
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)
-
In the heartlands of Islam, from Saudi mansions to ISIS dungeons, there are still slaves, laboring, beaten, bought, sold, raped and disposed of in Mohammed's name.
-
My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.
-
When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.
-
Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
-
Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.
-
Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
-
'Was your mother furious?''She’ll get over it,' Stanton said. 'Perhaps not in this lifetime, but I happen to believe in reincarnation, so there’s still hope.'
-
Not every dollar spent to gain influence on Capitol Hill comes from a big global industrial behemoth. Hundreds of small advocacy groups and nonprofits spend thousands each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies on the issues they care about most, and their efforts often go under the radar.
-
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
