David Chang Quotes

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

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• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Fame

• Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Today

• Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Country
  • Leave
  • Seriously

• You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Know

• A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • See
  • Generation
  • Market

• I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Heaven

• There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Words
  • Church
  • Doubt

• It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beginning

• No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.

  

  Maimonides
  • Small

• We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Power
  • Past

• Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Art
  • Science

• The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Past
  • Suffering

• Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• You want to hit people's ears to make them want to dance in their kitchen. So that is what a hit is to me.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Dance
  • Kitchen

• In the 1970s, the scare was about global cooling.

  

  Maurice Flanagan

• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  

  Augustus Y. Napier
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Long
  • Help
  • Fear

• I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Light
  • Buddy
  • Nighttime

• Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.

  

  Wendy Starland
  • Criticism
  • Constructive
  • Required

• I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Work

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

  

  David Chang