"I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one."

-- Alain Prost

#Numbers Quotes #People Quotes #Problem Quotes

“I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.”
“It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.”
“It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!”
“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.”
“Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.”
“Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.”
“And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.”

Source : "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.

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