Candy Chang famous quotes

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.
-- Candy Chang

#Motivation #Inspiration #Thinking

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.
-- Candy Chang

#Perspective #Important #Age

Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be,
-- Candy Chang

#Space #Profound

[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.
-- Candy Chang

#Motivation #Inspiration #Knowing

Reimagine a way communities can be rebuilt.
-- Candy Chang

#Empowering #Community #Way

The world becomes more rewarding when you let yourself look beyond what you're searching for.
-- Candy Chang

#Looks #World

Thinking about death... clarifies your life!
-- Candy Chang

#Thinking

People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.
-- Candy Chang

#Wall #People #Laughing

No one said you can't go outside the lines.
-- Candy Chang

#Lines #Said

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

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

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.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...