Charlene Li Quotes

If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

Charlene Li

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• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Honor

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Animal
  • Reflect

• The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Day
  • Thought

• To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Fat

• Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • School
  • House

• I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hand

• Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Everyone says that when you have kids, you become crazy.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Kids
  • Crazy

• As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year in human history. These pressures combine to create real threats to security and stability around the world.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Trust

• It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Nice
  • Healing
  • Creepy

• My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Good

• Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you

  

  Karuho Shiina
  • Confidence
  • Lacked

• Making movies is all about instinct.

  

  Dino De Laurentiis

• Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Results

• If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

  

  Charlene Li
  • Listening
  • Realizing
  • Results