13 Quotes From Shahrukh Khan's IIMB Speech That Will Teach You A Thing Or Two About Life

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Shahrukh Khan is probably one actor who is never low on energy, whether it's onscreen, or off it. We've often seen King Khan give out really witty comments at live events, the most recent cases being his interview with Sundar Pichai at the Google headquarters a few months back, and at his 50th birthday recently. But SRK proved again that he's a really smart orator at IIM Bangalore recently. He was there to address the students and the alumni of the college, and as expected, he rolled out some really inspiring quotes. We picked out 13 of the best ones for you!

1. I would advise keeping your eyes open for life's magic and not turning away from it citing practicality and good reason. There isn't one. Be brave enough to face your destiny, to sacrifice for it and compromise for it if you have to. It will always be worth it. To imagine that you know better than life is the silliest.

2. Creation cannot be managerial, it has to be imaginational.

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3. Growth that you can quantify is an illusion. The reality is hard work, diligence, and wanting to strive for familiarity in the fields one wants to work in to create the best. Hard work is non-negotiable, I did not know my destiny , I don't think I still do.

4. I, for one, never set myself goals. I only strive to work, work better and better. Goals limit creativity.

5. A "perfect life" is a farce. God isn't making utopian ad films and screening them on the clouds to sell its USP to you. It's a man made idea and we're buying into it all the time. Actually, there is nothing more beautiful than the imperfection of life.

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6. I do not miss the regular life. I don't miss eating on the streets. If I miss a burger, I'll get a McDonald's in my house and that is what I like.

7. A mind that does not function within the framework of boundaries but constantly searches beyond them is a mind that is able to create anew.

8. Dreaming is not enough, its also important to be able to dismantle the old, the frameworks that are laid out before you, the ideas that you yourself cling to, the ones that hold you back and prevent you from growing.

9. I have never set goals but I have truly never done a single thing that I wasn't determined to do the best. I had no idea where it would take me for the most part of it, but I had the idea that I would do whatever it was with a determination that would scare everyone else away.

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10. Leadership implies being prepared for disaster. And it will come. You can cry and wallow. I do that often and I am not ashamed to admit it. I do that in a special corner reserved for tears in my huge golden bathroom. Somewhere between the Jacuzzi and the steam room, I sit on the floor and shed huge tears of self pity, persecution and how the world doesn't understand my genius and effort....but then I take a hot and cold shower and walk out wearing my limited edition cologne... ready to embrace disaster.

11. If you want to excel at something there shouldn't be a single person around you who can claim to be more familiar with its mechanics than you are.

12. To be able to love, to give, to share, to nurture, to take others along on your journey with as much goodwill for them as you have for yourself is the basis of all creative endeavour, of all real success, of all happiness and of true leadership.

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13. There is no greater creativity in life or leadership than the ability to touch each moment that you are living with the beauty of living it by your heart, to give back to life the fullness that it has had the generosity to give to you.