Satya Narayan Goenka Quotes

At this moment, let us not forget that my authority has been challenged not by a warrior but by a monkey! ~ R.K. Narayan

people only follow their inclinations, and sooner or later find their reward or retribution. That's the natural law of life, ~ R.K. Narayan

We must respond to opportunities before they become conventional wisdom. ~ Satya Nadella

We are our best guide and a friend. Our problems arise when we start looking for one elsewhere. ~ Kunal Narayan Uniyal

The problem is the policy makers don't have practitioners in the policy team. You won't make an IT policy without consulting a Narayan Murthy or Nandan Nilekani. But for energy, people think they know everything and they know what to do for it. That's how the policies are created in Delhi and that needs to change. ~ Ramon Magsaysay

How do we negotiate between my history and yours? How would it be possible for us to recover our commonality, not the ambiguous imperial-humanist myth of those shard human (and indeed also most divine) attributes that are supposed to distinguish us absolutely from animals but, more significant, the imbrications of our various pasts and presents, the ineluctable relationships of shred and contested meanings, values, and material resources? It is necessary to assert our dense particularities, our lived and imagined differences; but can we afford to leave untheorized the question of how our differences are intertwined and, indeed, hierarchically organized? Could we, in other words, afford to have entirely different histories, to see ourselves living - and having lived - in entirely heterogenous and discrete spaces? ~ Satya P. Mohanty

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business. ~ Satya Nadella

What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on. ~ Satya Nadella

Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being. ~ Narayan Desai

Swaminathan had never thought that this story contained a moral. But now he felt that it must have one since the question paper mentioned it. ~ R.K. Narayan

There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people). ~ Dada Bhagwan

Principal sahib, all festivals I celebrate, in every name of God I exhilarate, be it Allah, Christ or Mahadev. And all this naturally comes to me because the Hindu that at heart I be. That's why I wish to remain a Hindu, you see." Narayan Sambhan paused and then added quietly, "But I am speaking principal sahib only for myself entirely." The ~ Sanjay Kumar Singh

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies. ~ Satya Nadella

Life is about making right things and going on.. ~ R.K. Narayan

I'm thinking about three things this morning. The obstacle is the path. Today is a good day. And what comes is a gift. ~ Satya Robyn

Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words. ~ R.K. Narayan

The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet - and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it; no harm in letting a poet describe his vision, no need to question his geography. ~ R.K. Narayan

This is a software-powered world. ~ Satya Nadella

Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation. ~ Satya Nadella

We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings. ~ Satya Nadella

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world. ~ Satya Bhabha

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances. ~ R.K. Narayan

You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete. ~ Satya Nadella

In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated. ~ S. N. Goenka

I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more. ~ Satya Bhabha

If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger. ~ Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Every page turned
should be the page read ~ Kunal Narayan Uniyal

I returned from the village. The house seemed unbearably dull. But I bore it. "There is no escape from loneliness and separation...." I told myself often. "Wife, child, brothers, parents, friends.... We come together only to go apart again. It is one continuous movement. They move away from us as we move away from them. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle and misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. ~ R.K. Narayan

Do you realize how few ever really understand how fortunate they are in their circumstances? ~ R.K. Narayan

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office. ~ Satya Nadella

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here. ~ Satya Nadella

Train yourself to be a good judge of your own work. Seek validation only from yourself and not from any external source. In the long run, you will discover that people appreciate you a lot more when you carry yourself well. At last you will gain the respect of people from whom you would otherwise seek validation from. ~ K.N. Ajit Narayan

But there is this peculiarity about heat: it appears to affect only those that think of it. ~ R.K. Narayan

In a world where we are accustomed to rivalries over possession, authority, and borders, and people clashing over the issue, "Ours," or "Mine, not yours," it is rather strange to find two people debating whose the kingdom is not, and asserting: "Yours, not mine. ~ R.K. Narayan

Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world. ~ Satya Nadella

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company. ~ Satya Nadella