Brian Wong Quotes

A law of behavioral psychology says that you can’t be in a state of appreciation and a state of fear at the same time, and since the most successful of entrepreneurs are almost fearless, they must have the ability to appreciate what they’ve got, the ability to be grateful to be doing something interesting and fun. When you’re having fun, when you appreciate the things you have, you stop worrying about success and failure...

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• If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Law

• Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Law
  • Community
  • Will

• Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Law
  • Body

• At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • May
  • Character
  • Think

• I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Law
  • Running
  • Understand

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• Thus they shall not miss this particular branch of the many branches of the Law and will have no need to roam and ramble about in other books in search of information on matters set forth in this treatise.

  

  Maimonides
  • Law
  • Search

• I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Experience
  • Psychology

• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at 'capitalism' because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Why
  • Law

• Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Psychology

• At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Law

• Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Art
  • Science
  • Education

• We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Time
  • War
  • Law

• We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Live
  • Law

• The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Law

• Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.

  

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide
  • People
  • May
  • Political

• No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Nature
  • Law

• If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Immigration
  • Illegal

• We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Society

• ...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Distance
  • Figures
  • Suffers

• A law of behavioral psychology says that you can’t be in a state of appreciation and a state of fear at the same time, and since the most successful of entrepreneurs are almost fearless, they must have the ability to appreciate what they’ve got, the ability to be grateful to be doing something interesting and fun. When you’re having fun, when you appreciate the things you have, you stop worrying about success and failure...

  

  Brian Wong
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