Jan C. Ting Quotes

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Jan C. Ting

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Real
  • Book
  • U.S.

• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Learning

• When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Learning
  • English
  • Years

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Home
  • Learning

• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Learning
  • Young
  • More

• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Learning
  • Yourself
  • Hunting

• Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Learning
  • Much
  • Perfecting

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Important
  • America
  • Know

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Up
  • Happy
  • House

• You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Grow

• One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Life
  • Learning

• I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • School

• People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

  

  Daniel Quinn
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

  

  Don Bluth
  • World
  • Trying

• I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

  

  Jan C. Ting
  • Learning
  • Immigration