Lin Yutang Quotes

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Job
  • War

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • You
  • Realize

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Girl
  • Wrong
  • Choir

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Friendship
  • Mask

• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Know
  • Act
  • I Can

• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
  • Men
  • Everything
  • Turn

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Fashion

• When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Game
  • Girl

• I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Challenge

• I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Any action is better than no action at all.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Action

• I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • World
  • Why
  • Father

• I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant
  • Value
  • Christian

• It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Important