Balakrishnan Quotes

#1. I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

Faith Hill

#2. If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing ... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.

Vivian Balakrishnan

#3. How did he change? What was he like before?" ...
"He was happy before.

Carrie Ryan

#4. I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

Marge Piercy

#5. Eternity is not a super-abundance of time, but timelessness.

Vijay Balakrishnan

#6. How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

Vivian Balakrishnan

#7. Is there a way to choose a few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things halfway or not at all? Can we accept the fact that we may be in a season when we need to say no with the understanding that the season will not last forever?

Stephen W. Smith

#8. Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Beth Moore

#9. Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

John C. Maxwell

#10. I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.

Michael Jackson

#11. Humans hunt and kill maneaters.
What if animals hunted animal eaters?!

Manoj Vaz

#12. We don't fit," I say. "I just want to find a spot, warm not cold, with a nice view, everything I could want, and I want to stop moving and stay there - in that spot. And you will never stand still.

Katy Evans

#13. Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

Bill Hybels

#14. If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

Miguel Ruiz

#15. The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

Vikas Swarup

#16. I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: "You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us."

Vivian Balakrishnan

#17. If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Brian Clough

#18. We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

Mark Sisson

#19. Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda