Lin Dan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
-
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
-
For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
I'm not a babysitter.
-
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
-
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
-
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
-
I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
-
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
-
What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
-
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
-
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
-
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
-
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
-
I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
-
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
-
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
-
Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
-
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.
-
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
-
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.
-
To me, leadership has always been about doing what's right. Because when you've had to write your blood type on your boots, you aren't afraid to make the right calls.
-
When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I'm still the best.
