Charles Kao Quotes

#1. I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

Michael Caine

#2. Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

Charles K. Kao

#3. When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

Sanjay Gupta

#4. I am a woman committed to
a politics
of transliteration, the methodology

of a mind
stunned at the suddenly
possible shifts of meaning - for which
like amnesiacs

in a ward on fire, we must
find words
or burn.

Olga Broumas

#5. If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Billy Sunday

#6. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

#7. Progress can be unglamorous.

Jardine Libaire

#8. In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Pema Chodron

#9. The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!

Charles K. Kao

#10. For he that hath, to him shall be given.

John Lanchester

#11. Like any other sin, the stronghold is in the will, and the will or purpose to doubt must be surrendered exactly as you surrender the will or purpose to yield to any other temptation. God always takes possession of a surrendered will.

Hanna Whitall Smith

#12. When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Charles K. Kao

#13. I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

Sebastiao Salgado

#14. I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

Billy Corgan

#15. A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat.

Paz Vega

#16. Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature.

Charles K. Kao

#17. What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

Zaha Hadid

#18. When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.

Charles K. Kao

#19. Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.

Charles K. Kao

#20. By working with one's own dream images and learning how to interpret them, a dreamer is unlocking the treasure box of insight, guidance, and transformation.

Teresa DeCicco

#21. We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart ... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together ... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

Helen Hayes