Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.
I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
I want to be the best, it's not about the ranking, it's about being consistent.
My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister and my birth was a big disappointment for her. In it there is a message that I understand very well now about the discrimination against the girl child. My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I dont, I learn from the match and move on.
Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures. . . whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.
While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.
Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.
My partner has to have good sized bones.