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

• Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

  

  Lilla Crawford
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

  

  Elmore Leonard

• Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

  

  Jessica Hahn

• We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.

  

  Andy Puddicombe
  • Focus
  • Calm
  • Meditation

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

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Meditation