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" Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way. "

Claire Messud

Insecurity

Learning

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" Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. "

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" If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it. "

" I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman. "

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Woman

Missing

" You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. "

" A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger. "

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Learning

" As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things. "

" If you desire ease, forsake learning. "

" I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else. "

Salman Rushdie

Walk

Think

" I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. "

" Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in. "

" For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite. "

Claire Messud

Find

Future

" There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. "

" Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo. "

" This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings. "

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" Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? "

" Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. "

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" As a kid, I used to tell all these stories. I remember meeting a childhood friend, and we were talking. We remembered that I had made up this story about going to Mars. And she looked at me and said, 'I didn't sleep for a week after that!' "

" As long as you live, keep learning how to live. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You

How

Long

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" I think you're working and learning until you die. "