Hassanal Bolkiah Quotes

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

Hassanal Bolkiah

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• I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Lifestyle

• At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Together
  • Rest

• I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Child
  • Poor

• You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Motivational

• The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • May
  • Confidence

• A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.

  

  James Gleick
  • Book
  • Words
  • Text

• A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Business

• A healthy heart is the key to longevity.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Heart

• In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Time
  • Miracle

• I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Great

• A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • World

• One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Work
  • College

• My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Connection

• I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Career

• People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Death
  • Sick

• Before, Tiffany sold watches only in its own stores. Now, Tiffany watches are sold in 1,500 stores.

  

  Nelson Peltz

• Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Facts
  • Labour
  • Snuff

• The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Mind
  • Compelling

• We just really wanted Hit-Girl to be a character who, in a sense, simply happens to be an 11-year-old girl, in the same way that Ripley in 'Alien' could have been a guy, but the part happened to be played by Sigourney Weaver.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I don’t really care that much about if I want to be more successful or less successful in art, because I never think life and art should be separate. What’s life if you don’t have conversation and joy and anger?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Art
  • Joy

• The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

  

  Hassanal Bolkiah
  • Foreign expertise
  • Business culture