Jim Yong Kim Quotes

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

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• My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • School
  • Nature
  • High

• Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Servant
  • Recollection

• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Like
  • Someone

• When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Creative

• I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Art
  • House
  • Small

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Beautiful
  • Right
  • Expression

• If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Best
  • Value

• Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Tapes

• I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Say

• For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Long
  • Exercise
  • Loss

• I am certain that Gadi Lesin's abilities and the experience he accumulated during his sixteen years in a variety of general management roles in Strauss Group in and outside of Israel will enable him, together with group management and all managers and employees of Strauss, to continue to take the group forward to further success.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Success

• There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Free
  • Charity
  • Claims

• Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Important
  • Freedom

• Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Kind
  • Hurt
  • Humans

• One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

  

  Jean Rostand

• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  

  Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Art
  • Learning
  • Painting

• I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Meditation