Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy - go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.

Vivek Wadhwa

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You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

John Abizaid

PowerPlantYouNewBuildYears

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Ann Voskamp

LifeNatureGoodStarsGodRain

People can never question how hard I work. That's all I care about.

Metta World Peace

WorkPeopleCareNeverHardHow

The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I can fall asleep on a dime.

Rosa Salazar

FallI CanDimeAsleep

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Mason Cooley

WisdomYouResumeExperimentsCall

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

Luis Fortuno

Do The Right ThingRoadDownOffice

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

Chris Hadfield

LifeWinterHealthBestPeople

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.

Chris Jericho

LightFeetRememberYouWrestling

I don't really rely on watching video monitors. They put you at a certain distance from your actors, and it makes me feel less a part of what's really happening in the scene.

Asif Kapadia

MeFeelYouDistanceWatchingYour

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.

Alice Walker

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My oldest brother was in 'The Andy Griffith Show' as one of Opie's friends.

Suzanne Crough

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