Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.

I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

One thing I would tell women is that they must take up the challenge. Very often, we anticipate a lot of problems, and therefore, we don't take the lead. And I think that we are shortchanging ourselves if we don't do that.

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.

In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

I am creative with both my limitations and my sense that everything is possible.

I can play many roles, a guy who takes on a challenge on very short notice with potentially damaging results, if I make the wrong move... I shoot for the stars. If I get the moon, I'm OK with that.

I feel that I can face any challenge.

I always say kids are the future and if we can inspire them, the world will be a much better place.

I'm still proud of who I am, of my youth, and I feel like now, as individuals, we begin to realise that we can change the future. We all have to participate.