Tan Le famous quotes

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.
-- Tan Le

#Motivation #Inspiration #Mean

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
-- Tan Le

#Motivation #Fall #Inspiration

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
-- Tan Le

#Brain #Wish #Facets

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
-- Tan Le

#Data #Understanding #Brain

You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
-- Tan Le

#Data #One Day

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type of motivation and that type of energy into my music, and I've always had confidence in my music as well.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

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.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

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

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.