Chia Thye Poh Quotes

Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.

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• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Growth

• I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.

  

  Washington Irving

• As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Father

• I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • May
  • Experience

• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Color

• I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Time
  • Period

• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • House
  • Stupid

• I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Cool
  • Training

• I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Joy

• I want to be a part of bringing people together and sharing that love.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • People
  • Together

• If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • School
  • Bad
  • Black

• I just want to make the best music I can make.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music

• Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Heart

• No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Blue
  • Wells
  • Impressive

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.

  

  Johnny Weir
  • Hand
  • Sleep

• Get out of your comfort zone. Wake up the sleeping giant in you.

  

  Chia Thye Poh
  • Sleep
  • Comfort