Charles K. Kao Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1933 - September 23, 2018

Topics

LifeDailyBrotherParentsDinner

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

Joey King

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I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

Meryl Streep

WorkPainStrongFeelingsCostume

Knowledge is the real power.

Ronnie Coleman

KnowledgePowerRealReal Power

Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly.

Ron Lewis

ResponsibilityRetirementSecurity

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

Roisin Murphy

GreatPlaceOddIrelandGreat Place

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

Mira Nair

TreatYouStoneNeverFollowFully

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

Milos Forman

MemoriesYouBackStopMercyBoring

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeWinSmallBookGameLose

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

William Sloane Coffin

LifeLiveSportsRisksExerciseBad

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Tobias Wolff

PeopleWritingGraduationYearEarly

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

Nigel Farage

StartMovementBeenJustDidUnsure

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Leslie Fiedler

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