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.

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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 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

• 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

• 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

• Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Future
  • Financial

• I will very happily grow old in the comedic world of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, if they would keep having me over and over.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • World

• We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

  

  John Hull
  • Giving

• In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

  

  Peter Coyote

• It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it.

  

  John Calvin
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East.

  

  David Petraeus
  • War
  • Cold

• 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