Najmi Bilgrami Quotes

#1. Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#2. The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

Richard Hamming

#3. A spiritual path for the modern samurai, but in the service of the heart, not the dictatorship of the ego.

Vincent Thibault

#4. We are all great beings ... I think people have lost the sense of that.

Pat Barry

#5. What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

Joan Didion

#6. Jesus was a pacifist.

Chris Hedges

#7. There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

Constance Rourke

#8. Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

Sean Connery

#9. His parted lips were lips which spoke, not of love, but of millions of miles; those were eyes which habitually gazed, not into the depths of other eyes, but into other worlds. Within his temples dwelt thoughts, not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations.

Thomas Hardy

#10. [The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

Amber Heard

#11. It's not enough to say I'm sorry. You have to also mean it. It's the same with saying I'm single.

Demetri Martin

#12. Catching people doing things right provides satisfaction and motivates good performance. But remember, give praise immediately, make it specific, and finally, encourage people to keep up the good work.

Kenneth H. Blanchard