Quote by Gish Jen Download Open image ““To have no particular aim was to open grand possibilities...”” — Gish Jen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When you have no preconceived notion of what you are good at, you are open to life's many possibilities.” — Kamaria G. Powell Copy Share Image
“Anything we have chosen to do invites the specters of all that we haven't chosen - this is the real mystery of choice.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
“There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“it's not a matter of knowing what to do, it's allowing yourself to be free enough to see possibilities.” — Kate Perry Copy Share Image
“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepare to make?” — Eileen Goudge Copy Share Image
“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and skeptical of everything.” — Todd Kashdan Copy Share Image
“if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure. — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule. — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga. — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art. — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent! — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is. — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
“In truth, he had always considered the sight of men eating croissants slightly ridiculous, especially at the beginning, when for the first bite they… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image