Goh Chok Tong Quotes

#1. I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: "You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us."

Vivian Balakrishnan

#2. Arin hadn't fallen asleep on the deck of his strangely still ship, yet, it felt as if he'd been dreaming. As if dreams and memories and lies were the same thing.

Marie Rutkoski

#3. Your life is a perfect reflection of your mental and emotional habits. Building a better life is as simple as building better habits.

Indigo Ocean

#4. How can I bribe my tongue to speak as truth the things my heart so contradicts. Attach to me then your strings and pull and I shall dance and be your puppet ... for a time

Tonny K. Brown

#5. The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When actors are great and sensitive and prepared, it makes a huge difference.

Paris Barclay

#6. Become aware that there are no accidents in our intelligent universe. Realize that everything that shows up in your life has something to teach you. Appreciate everyone and everything in your life.

Wayne Dyer

#7. Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments, then I worry.

Goh Chok Tong

#8. It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

George Washington

#9. If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.

Peter Capaldi

#10. In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

Goh Chok Tong

#11. I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Goh Chok Tong

#12. A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#13. Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

Goh Chok Tong

#14. My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

Goh Chok Tong

#15. When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

Orison Swett Marden

#16. Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me.

Jeev Milkha Singh

#17. I think finding that happy medium is pretty much impossible. I have never seen or heard of a cheerful ghost talker.

Michael Kroft

#18. TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.

Drew Sidora

#19. As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Goh Chok Tong