Top 100 Chang Quotes
#1. I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.
Victoria Chang
#2. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.
Yongsoo Park
#3. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.
Lao Chang
#4. I'm not going to be part of this," said Leo. He opened his hand and dropped the flowers. Fragrant, obedient, they beheaded themselves on Saina's salvaged-wood floors.
Jade Chang
#5. No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
Chang-rae Lee
#6. Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.
David Chang
#7. Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.
David Chang
#8. All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.
Michael Chang
#9. It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
Iris Chang
#10. Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.
Ha-Joon Chang
#11. As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
Ha-Joon Chang
#12. I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
Jung Chang
#13. We labor hard for certain but the work is rote and our tomorrows are mostly settled and the way we love one another is cast by the form of our excellent contiguity, a rigorous closeness that only rarely oversteps its bounds.
Chang-rae Lee
#14. I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
Darin Strauss
#15. Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.
Ha-Joon Chang
#16. So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.
Jung Chang
#17. By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
Ha-Joon Chang
#18. I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.
David Chang
#19. As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang
#20. Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.
Chang-rae Lee
#21. The longer you drift the more you will learn. What you learn affects the kind of person you end up turning into.
Chang Ta-chun
#22. Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.
David Chang
#23. Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang
#24. Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.
Gordon Dahlquist
#25. Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.
Victoria Chang
#26. He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing
Chang-rae Lee
#27. But racism and inequality would never end if Blacks focused on easing white anxiety.
Jeff Chang
#29. For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
Jung Chang
#30. I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes.
David Chang
#31. I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.
Jung Chang
#32. I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short ... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.
Chang-rae Lee
#33. Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
John Milton
#34. It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
Ha-Joon Chang
#35. People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.
Katie Chang
#36. It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.
Chang-rae Lee
#37. The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.
David Chang
#39. Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
Chang-rae Lee
#40. Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.
David Chang
#41. I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.
Chang-rae Lee
#42. Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?
David Chang
#43. Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that I didn't plan out, but the part that I was most curious about as I was writing. You know what you're doing, but you're sometimes still sort of curious as you're writing it.
Chang-rae Lee
#44. The Japanese are a disease of the skin ... the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political ... Two reds sandwiching a black ...
Jung Chang
#45. 95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.
Ha-Joon Chang
#46. I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
Iris Chang
#47. I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.
Michael Chang
#48. Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.
Ha-Joon Chang
#49. I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
Chang-rae Lee
#50. Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.
Ha-Joon Chang
#51. He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.
Christine Truman
#52. Pitiful are those who, acting, are attached to their action's fruits. The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone. ~ Bhagavad Gita, c. 400 BCE ~ 2:49-50
Larry Chang
#53. When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
Jung Chang
#54. A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.
Ha-Joon Chang
#55. Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached to her family," which was condemned as a "bourgeois habit," and had to see less and less of her own mother.
Jung Chang
#56. Economics is (almost) about Life, the Universe and Everything.
Ha-Joon Chang
#57. Reimagine a way communities can be rebuilt.
Candy Chang
#58. Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
Jorge Luis Borges
#59. I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.
Michael Chang
#60. When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.
Jung Chang
#61. If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
Michael Chang
#62. The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud.
Michael Chang
#63. I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.
Stefan Edberg
#64. It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need.
Michael Chang
#65. The constant cry is that you belong here, or you make yourself belong, or you must go. (1998: 319)
Chang-rae Lee
#66. You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
Michael Chang
#67. I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.
Michael Chang
#68. Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
Jung Chang
#69. I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.
David Chang
#70. 95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.
Ha-Joon Chang
#71. According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties of the wife to raise her husband.
Jung Chang
#72. Shouldn't a three-course meal be 90 minutes? Do you know how hard you have to edit your menu to pull that off? Twenty-seven minutes. That's the average meal at Jiro's in Tokyo.
David Chang
#73. Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
Ha-Joon Chang
#74. Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies ...
Eileen Chang
#75. They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.
Chang-rae Lee
#76. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita
Laurell K. Hamilton
#78. People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well.
'Here you are, now entertain us'.
But are we allowed to lead?
Jeff Chang
#79. Whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time.
Chang-rae Lee
#80. Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.
Michael Chang
#81. That's the trouble when you're young, my hun soul says. You think you have all the time in the world. You think the world will wait until you're ready.
Janie Chang
#82. Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, they're not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.
David Chang
#83. At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
Jung Chang
#84. Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are
a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
Ha-Joon Chang
#85. I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
Ha-Joon Chang
#86. I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.
Chang-rae Lee
#87. I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
Chang-rae Lee
#88. You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.
Chang-rae Lee
#89. My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.
Victoria Chang
#90. The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
David Chang
#91. The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.
Ha-Joon Chang
#93. To me, there are two types of celebrity: there's good celebrity - people that are attracted to the food and working and trying to create something great - and then there's bad celebrity - those who are working on being a celebrity.
David Chang
#94. In the end, all we had were the people to whom we were beholden.
Jade Chang
#95. In America, he said, it's even hard to stay Korean.
Chang-rae Lee
#96. The question, then, is whether being an "individual" makes a difference anymore. That it can matter at all. And if not, whether we in fact care.
Chang-rae Lee
#97. No one thinks to make the goddess a cup of tea; they just ply her with useless perfumed oils and impotent carved fetishes.
Jade Chang
#98. Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
Ha-Joon Chang
#99. We in China had been trained not to draw conclusions from facts, but to start with Marxist theories or Mao thoughts or the Party line and to deny, even condemn, the facts that did not suit them. I
Jung Chang
#100. The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.
Katie Chang
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