David Chang Quotes

I was terrible at desk jobs.

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• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Happy

• In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Feel
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Say
  • Prince

• Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Politics
  • Greatness
  • Needed

• There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Something
  • Very
  • Point

• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • People
  • Read
  • News

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Youth

• I'm happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has arrived, albeit a little past the end of 2016.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Past

• I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Live
  • Why

• Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • English
  • King
  • Bible

• Being impotent because they have never dared to assert themselves, they continually play the blame game. They are innocent and powerless and, therefore, others are always to blame when things go wrong. … They have yet to bite the apple of consciousness.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Game
  • Innocent

• It is increasingly necessary to impress the fact that there are two distinct lines in the improvement of any race: the environment which brings individuals up to their best possibilities; the other, ten thousand times more important and effective, selection of the best individuals through a series of generations.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • Up
  • Important
  • Environment

• Spend all your time waitingFor that second chance,For a break that would make it OK.There's always some reasonTo feel not good enough;And it's hard at the end of the day.I need some distraction,Oh, beautiful release.Memory seeps through my veins.Let me be empty,Oh weightless and maybeI'll find some peace tonight.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  

  Logic
  • Taken
  • Logic
  • Whiskey

• 'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Thinking

• I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Never
  • Journalism
  • Outsider

• I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Success
  • Books
  • Weekend

• When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Job

• Fans are very emotional people, and when they have seen you with some people and they like your chemistry, they expect you to work with the same person again.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • People
  • Work
  • Emotional

• People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is all execution, making it happen. Not so. As the strategy revolution demonstrated, ideas can be the key tools for making your business competitive.

  

  Walter Kiechel
  • People
  • Important
  • Revolution

• I was terrible at desk jobs.

  

  David Chang