Tag: commitment

“From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.”

“Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.”

“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”

“I want us to be intentional about being good to ourselves, and sometimes our food is a way we treat ourselves, but we need to be intentional with what we put in our bodies and mind.”

“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”

“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.”

“I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.”

“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”

“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.”

“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”

“I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.”

“Building design isn't trendy.”

“One thing that's consistent in all of my work is that these aren't accidents; they're all conscious landscapes. They're all things that we're doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism.”

“'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.”

“I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.”

“I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.”

“To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one's confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!”

“Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.”

“The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.”

“I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.”

“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”