Tharman Shanmugaratnam Quotes

#1. Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

Bear Grylls

#2. People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

#3. If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.

Mark Gallagher

#4. She started walking again. "Are you saying you didn't even want to be with her? Not even just a little?"
He stopped. "How could I want to be with her when I want to be with you? I told you that before this whole thing started.

L.J.Smith

#5. In 3 years I would rather say "Wow, that was brave" than "I wonder if...

Danielle Robertson

#6. Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

Joan Didion

#7. Can I get a two-thumbs up for a fatter America?

Andrew Sturm

#8. The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives
the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

Gary Shteyngart

#10. The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity.

Thomas Merton