Eva Chen Quotes

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

I've always wanted to try things for myself before passing a judgment on them.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.

I want people to become more comfortable with deeper looks at the things that they love. It doesn't mean that you have to stop loving them, it just means that you have a more complete understanding of them.

I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless; therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.