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I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
Elon Musk
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I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.
Chris Gardner
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Elon Musk
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I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.
Rajon Rondo
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I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.
Chris Gardner
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I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.
Chris Gardner
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So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.
Chris Gardner
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What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.
Elon Musk
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I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?
Chris Gardner
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon Musk
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DNA
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Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.
Chris Gardner
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
Elon Musk
Able
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
Elon Musk
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When you're doing something you're truly passionate about, there is no plan B.
Chris Gardner
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I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'
Chris Gardner
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No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.
Chris Gardner
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The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.
Chris Gardner
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Remember: If you don't schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.
Chris Gardner
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If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.
Chris Gardner
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Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.
Chris Gardner
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As long as you have a plan for how you'll live, don't let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.
Chris Gardner
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Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.
Chris Gardner
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You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.
Chris Gardner
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I want to improve my shooting, my free throw shooting, keeping my turnovers down.
Rajon Rondo
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I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.
Rajon Rondo
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When you're off the court, that's when it's time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it's time to compete.
Rajon Rondo
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First of all, I'm misunderstood in general. I don't mind because I'm very quiet, and I stay to myself. People are going to say what they want to say.
Rajon Rondo
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First Of All
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What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.
Ratan Tata
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Ratan Tata
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I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b
Eldridge Cleaver
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I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.
Ratan Tata
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There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
Ratan Tata
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I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
Ratan Tata
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Eldridge Cleaver
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George Eliot
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George Eliot
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India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.
Ratan Tata
Basis
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India
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I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.
Ratan Tata
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My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.
Ratan Tata
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Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.
Ratan Tata
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There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.
Ratan Tata
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A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.
Ratan Tata
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
Ram Dass
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
Ram Dass
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