I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc. , one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.
God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having - viz. , life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life.
I dream of an India that is a hub of opportunities. We can't restrict ourselves to skills only, we need to encourage entrepreneurship.