Su-chin Pak Quotes
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
Quotes to Explore
-
While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
-
A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
-
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
-
I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
-
If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
-
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
-
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
-
Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
-
We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
-
It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
-
Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
-
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
-
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
-
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
-
The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
-
The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.
-
Nothing is ever perfect in the NBA.
-
Huge success is very hard to come by.
-
If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
Elliott Erwitt -
When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.
-
I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.
-
I don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.
-
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
-
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
