quotes about Disharmony

“I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.”

“There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.”

Source : "From The Vault: Umair Haque: Redefining How We Measure Economic Growth". Interview with Dylan Ratigan, www.dylanratigan.com. December 2011.

“I look back and I look at all the opportunities that I've had to work really hard and really challenge myself, and I like to do things that scare me. I like to do things that I don't know if I'm going to be able to do. I need the help of talented people around me. I love that it's a collaboration.”

“I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.”

“There is no place where espionage is not possible.”

“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”

“Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.”

“Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And there is lots of talk and realization of this. It's harder to understand that at the same time, you can actually have global inequality going down. Technically speaking, national inequality can increase in every single country and yet global inequality can go down. And why it is going down is because very large, populous, and relatively poor countries like India and China are growing quite fast.”

“Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.”

“Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.”