Chin Ning Chu Quotes

#1. If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

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#2. Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

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#3. When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

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#4. The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.

Gordon Korman

#5. A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

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#6. If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

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#7. Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak.

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#8. Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

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#9. I didn't know I was talking to the President of the United States. I thought it was someone pranking you. I swear!

Scarlett Dawn

#10. Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

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#11. The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.

Richard E. Blackwelder

#12. Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

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#13. A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

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#14. Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

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#15. If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

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#16. You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

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#17. The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

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#18. Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Philippe Starck

#19. In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

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#20. Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

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#21. When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the
person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good
you can be.

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#22. By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation ... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

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#23. Little things are great to little men.

Oliver Goldsmith

#24. To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

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#25. My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

Oliver Sacks

#26. Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.

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#27. You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

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#28. To be romantic is quite simply to allow yourself to fall in love with life - all of life - and experience it fully, openly, passionately, and purposefully

Thomas Kinkade