Chade-Meng Tan Quotes

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

Who's on my radar? I don't have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me. I don't go after them because I'm where they want to be.

I'm exceptional in everything that I do and I aspire to do.

I'm not cocky, I'm humble, but I think I can be really special, one of the top players in the league.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

We need a President who is intellectual, who is a brilliant thinker, and not only that, someone who has a heart for the people and who can represent Singapore on the greater world stage.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities