Su-chin Pak Quotes

Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.

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• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Kind
  • Training
  • Yoga

• In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • American
  • America
  • Soul

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

  

  Florence Green
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Flying

• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  

  M. Ward
  • Good
  • American
  • Sometimes

• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Religion

• I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • English
  • Literature
  • Chaos

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Know
  • Just

• In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • Weakness

• I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Myself
  • Deep

• We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • See

• Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Know
  • Learn
  • Find

• I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Meaning

• In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Life
  • Science
  • Education

• Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Painting
  • Inspired

• I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Family
  • Way
  • Apologize

• It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Creating
  • Israel
  • Remarkable

• More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

  

  Amelie Nothomb

• Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.

  

  Su-chin Pak
  • Life
  • Want
  • Find