Chamandy Foundation Quotes

#1. I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.

George Eliot

#2. What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?

Francis Collins

#3. Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

James Brown

#4. Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

Jean Paul

#5. Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain.

Kwame Alexander

#6. I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Grace Paley

#7. I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before.

Daniel Willey

#8. Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.

Novalis

#9. I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.

Colin Trevorrow

#10. Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

Mike Tyson

#11. This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.

Victor Hugo

#12. Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#13. That while we were busy making sure we didn't miss

Meg Jay

#14. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven't earned it, who haven't even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.

Bryan Stevenson