I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.
Interpretation
The speaker values deep connections with his family despite limited time together.
In this quote, Ratan Tata emphasizes the importance of familial bonds over mere quantity of time spent together. He reflects on his strong emotional connection with his wife and children, indicating that meaningful relationships can thrive even in brief interactions, highlighting the quality of time over the quantity.
In practice
During a family gathering, I shared how Ratan Tata's perspective on family resonates with my own experience.
I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.
I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
I sustain myself with the love of family.
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.
[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.
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