Top 25 Simon Tam Quotes
#1. Committees can criticize, but they cannot create.
David Ogilvy
#2. Success in the music industry isn't something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after day.
Simon S. Tam
#3. The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.
Simon S. Tam
#4. The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it's more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you'll accomplish more than you would be able to with two hours of unfocused, random actions.
Simon S. Tam
#5. Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?
Simon S. Tam
#6. All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
Hakuin Ekaku
#7. People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.
Simon S. Tam
#8. Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought
Simon S. Tam
#9. This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#10. A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.
Judy Blume
#11. A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
Flannery O'Connor
#12. Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic!
Nandini Deka
#13. Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.
Simon S. Tam
#14. People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to
Simon S. Tam
#15. The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.
Simon Tam
#16. I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists
Simon Tam
#17. The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Holbrook Jackson
#18. We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
Hjalmar Branting
#19. Apathy is not compatible with love
Simon Tam
#20. The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't
Simon S. Tam
#21. People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there's a group of people getting together to share something about their heritage that we're excluding white people. But that's not the reality.
Simon S. Tam
#22. I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
Conrad Veidt
#23. Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.
Simon S. Tam
#24. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.
Simon S. Tam
#25. Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.
Olli Jalonen
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