Ma Jun Quotes

When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

Ma Jun

• Real
• Money
• Technology
• motivation

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • World
  • Happy
  • Man

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Country
  • Profound
  • Greatest

• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Creativity

• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Environment

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parents

• I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Parents

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

  

  Mel Brooks

• There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Negative

• When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • Star
  • Competition

• One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Work

• The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Parents

• When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Real
  • Money
  • Technology