Srikumar Rao Quotes

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Srikumar Rao

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: April 11, 1951

Topics

LeaderPeopleSayingSelfYouWant

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

Amanda Hearst

FashionMissionProveEthicalMade

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Story Musgrave

LifeLookStatisticsCivilization

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Tom Petty

LazyBarelyProlificIncredibly

You get these horrifying straight-to-video things for very little money, then you go to the Cannes Film Festival, and they got some poster of you, 40 ft. high, in the worst movie in the world.

Michael Madsen

MoneyWorldYouGoWorstHigh

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Jonathan Powell

LiveUglyDemocracyLearnTerrorism

Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

Johnny Flynn

SongMakeFinishedVersesLoads

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

Douglas Adams

GreatInterestingDoingYouBecome

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Arthur Smith

SkyCloudsTreesLandscapePerfect

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Alicia Keys

LearningWritingSongLearnPlay

I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

SZA

EnergyFeelEnjoyEmptyI Feel Like

Every year of my life, my dad has sent me a Valentine's Day gift. Whether I was in the same house or across the country, he always sent something.

Sevyn Streeter

LifeValentine's DayDayMeGift

I'm going to spend some time with my family. My kids are really in the years where I'm starting to miss more stuff, and we're going to stay very involved in politics.

Tim Griffin

FamilyTimePoliticsMoreStarting

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