Sinubok Ng Panahon Quotes

And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century. ~ Robert Reich

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman. ~ Gloria Ng

Every time she kissed him, every time he opened his arms and she crawled into them, felt like a miracle. Coming to her made him feel perfectly welcomed, perfectly at home, as he had never in his life felt before. ~ Celeste Ng

Ng Security Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit #A-367 lives in a pleasant black-and-white Metaverse where porterhouse steaks grow on trees, dangling at head level from low branches, and blood-drenched Frisbees fly through the crisp, cool air for no reason at all, until you catch them. ~ Neal Stephenson

She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby's flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh. ~ Celeste Ng

Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. ~ Celeste Ng

Like after a prairie fire...It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning, the soil is richer, and new things can grow....People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way. ~ Celeste Ng

The primary value in value-based leadership is other-centredness - to be more concerned about other people and the organization than oneself. So in other words, the leader's job is to fulfil the agenda, the role, and the vision of the organization, not his personal agenda. All the great leaders in the world are other-centred. The self-centred leader will derail in due course But still, to be other centred is not enough. ~ John Ng

How he'd asked for a telescope for his fourteenth birthday and received a clock radio instead; how he'd saved his allowance and bought himself one. How, sometimes, at dinner, Nath never said a word about his day, because their parents never asked. ~ Celeste Ng

Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring. ~ Maya Soetoro-Ng

She had spent the night planning and now that it was time, she hardly thought at all. It was as if she were standing outside herself, watching someone else do these things. ~ Celeste Ng

Was she sad? She was angry. Furious at the smallness of her mother's life. ~ Celeste Ng

She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back ~ Celeste Ng

Like small animals sheltered deep in their den ~ Celeste Ng

Before that she hadn't realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it. ~ Celeste Ng

It was as if instead of entering a house she was entering the idea of a house, some archetype brought to life here before her. Something she'd only heard about but never seen. ~ Celeste Ng

Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure. ~ Gloria Ng

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background. ~ Ren Ng

Over the past two weeks she's worked her way through it [the book], a little each night, savoring the words like a cherry Life Saver tucked inside her cheek. ~ Celeste Ng

The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251 ~ Celeste Ng

It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds core, and all. ~ Celeste Ng

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot. ~ Ren Ng

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this algorithm is and implement it on a computer, that can help us make a lot of progress. ~ Andrew Ng

She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her. ~ Celeste Ng

Remembering the past gives power to the present. ~ Fae Myenne Ng

When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now ... recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it's this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment. ~ Joseph Campbell

Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it. ~ Win Ng

I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom. ~ Ren Ng

Unlike regular digital or film cameras, which can only record a scene in two dimensions, light field cameras capture all of the light rays traveling in every direction through a scene. This means that some aspects of a picture can be manipulated after the fact. ~ Ren Ng

I'd like to think of my self as not melancholic at all, I think I'm a pretty cheerful person, really. ~ Celeste Ng

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things, ~ Celeste Ng

To those out on their own paths, setting little fires. ~ Celeste Ng

The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels. ~ Ren Ng

as her mother promised to teach them everything a young lady needed to keep a house. As if, Marilyn thought, it might run away when you weren't looking. ~ Celeste Ng

You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it. ~ Celeste Ng

If a soul could leave the body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood. ~ Celeste Ng

Most communities just happen; the best are planned. ~ Celeste Ng

She did not even have words, only a feeling, a terrible hollow feeling, as if everything inside her had been scooped out raw. ~ Celeste Ng