Munk Quotes

#1. You should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear ... If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends.

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. Shaw ... has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?"
"Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.

Walter Munk

#4. We must have the hope to be able to succeed.

Walter Munk

#5. There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them.

Walter Munk

#6. I know that if you spend enough on each person person in a village, you will change their lives. If you put in enough resources-enough mzungu,foreigners, technical assistance, and money-lives change. I know that....The problem is, when you walk, what happens? -Simon Bland

Nina Munk

#7. We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.

Mark Foley

#8. I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.

Walter Munk

#9. What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed

Nina Munk

#10. To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

Peter Munk

#11. Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.

Walter Munk

#13. People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.

Walter Munk

#14. What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.

Walter Munk

#15. It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.

Walter Munk

#16. Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

Peter Munk

#17. God can't force his children to become like him. It's something they have to want, a blessing they have to fight for and be willing to sacrifice to attain.

Chris Stewart

#18. Become at ease with the state of "not knowing.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.

Dave Pelzer

#20. More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.

Walter Munk

#21. This is going to be a difficult few hundred years. No matter what we do, we have to give up some of the advantages of the wealthy Western nations and help out people who are less fortunate. That is the key. I think we can do it if we have more compassion for one another.

Walter Munk

#22. I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Francia Raisa

#23. We still have hope; it is what keeps us going.

Walter Munk

#24. People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.

Walter Munk

#25. But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

Peter Munk

#26. We have to have more consideration for people who have lesser means than we do. It is a problem of survival.

Walter Munk

#27. I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

Peter Munk

#28. Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it.

Walter Munk

#29. For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

Peter Munk

#30. Respect the people you lie to, Tao had taught her. Steal from them long enough, and you will begin to understand them.

Brandon Sanderson