Kang Gary
I admit to being ugly. Millions of kids out there are constantly teased for their looks. They are isolated, put down, insulted just because they were born ugly. They don't deserve that. I hope they see us and realize that things will be OK. They just need to work hard, hone their talents and always be kind. Success and happiness will follow. Those bullies will learn their lessons someday.
Salman Khan
Can you imagine if someone told Einstein, Okay, wrap up this relativity thing, we're moving on to European history? Or said to Michelangelo, Time's up for the ceiling, now go paint the walls. Yet versions of this snuffing out of creativity and boundary-stretching thought happen all the time in conventional schools.
Salman Khan
These are the kinds of curious, mysterious, and original minds that often end up making major contributions to our world; to reach their full potential, however, they need the latitude to follow their own oblique, nonstandard paths. That latitude is seldom found in a conventional, box-shaped classroom in which everyone is supposed to be doing the exact same lesson, and "differentness" is generally used as a negative.
Salman Khan
Personal responsibility is not only undervalued but actually discouraged by the standard classroom model, with its enforced passivity and rigid boundaries of curriculum and time. Denied the opportunity to make even the most basic decisions about how and what they will learn, students stop short of full commitment.
Kim Jong Un
The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
Kim Jong Il
Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language.
Kim Il-Sung
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.
Dannreuther (Beat the Devil)
- 600 Years
I know darn well what the gardener said. He said all you had to do was get some good grass and then roll it every day for some six hundred years or some such howling nonsense. I heard that gardener thing before you were born. English people tell it when they feel poor.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Most people are average, neither black nor white, but grey. A dirty shade of grey. To the best of my ability I tried to write about these people, about their completely average, commonplace dreams and hopes, and about their suspicious tendency towards murder.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.
Yoo Jae Seok
- On Celebrating "Running Man's" 100th Episode
I never imagined at the first episode's recording that we would come to 100 episodes. In the beginning, every time in between takes our members would ask me, "What do we do now, hyung?"
Lee Kwang Soo
Some people think I'm fake. But I don't really mind because people around me know what kind of person I am. Some people think of me positively and others don't. I cannot be in everyone's favour. I just believe that if I act with sincerity, people will recognise it.
Lee Kuan Yew
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.
Unknown
- Aprocryphal Quote from Joseph Stalin
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Lee Kuan Yew
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.
Lee Kuan Yew
I was also troubled by the apparent over-confidence of a generation that has only known stability, growth and prosperity. I thought our people should understand how vulnerable Singapore was and is, the dangers that beset us, and how we nearly did not make it. Most of all, I hope that they will know that honest and effective government, public order and personal security, economic and social progress did not come about as the natural course of events.
Lee Kuan Yew
A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people and the quality of their leaders which ensure it an honorable place in history.
