Leslie T. Chang quotes

“Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.”
-- Leslie T. Chang

Source : "The voices of China's workers". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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“The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.”
-- Leslie T. Chang

Source : Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.260, Pan Macmillan

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“A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.”
-- Leslie T. Chang

Source : Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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“Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills and to see the world.”
-- Leslie T. Chang

Source : "The voices of China's workers". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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“Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"”

Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.27, Penguin

“Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.”

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.”