Kao Quotes

#1. Emotions are captive to reality

Kao Kalia Yang

#2. 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

#3. I've always been an engineer devoted to the potential of advanced technologies. Like most engineers, I have a keen sense of curiosity and a deep desire to learn. Garmin was my first entrepreneurial endeavour, and it has been an incredible journey.

Min Kao

#4. I feel much safer with girls, so I felt more comfortable kissing her in the movie than kissing any of the other people that I had to kiss.

Megan Fox

#5. 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

#6. Every entrepreneur needs ideas, vision, and creativity - no matter what the product or service. Not only that, but the product should truly delight customers and become an essential part of their lives.

Min Kao

#7. Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Arthur Helps

#8. When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.

Eileen Myles

#9. Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

John Kao

#10. I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Min Kao

#11. Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

John Kao

#12. The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

Kelly Wearstler

#13. We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

Deepak Chopra

#14. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.

Adrian Rogers

#15. What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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

Charles K. Kao

#17. Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

John Kao

#18. Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Judith Jamison

#19. The girls here are so young. One of them twines her fingers into mine, her hand so small I could crush it. There are more of them in the ballroom, standing well outside the pools of light that demarcate the dancing from the sitting, the illusion from the reality.

Karen Kao

#20. You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Charles K. Kao

#22. Why can't you place a blessing like that on us," I asked.
"It only works on wild animals,"
"So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned.

Rick Riordan

#23. I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

Uri Geller

#24. The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.

Jairam Ramesh

#25. A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

John Kao

#26. The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.

Michael P. Naughton

#27. Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Studd

#28. The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.

John Kao

#29. I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

Julie Kagawa

#30. 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

#31. Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

John Kao

#32. To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Barry Hughart

#33. I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation systems.

Min Kao

#34. Patience is the road to wisdom.

Kao Kalia Yang

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

Charles K. Kao