Ong Quotes & Sayings

When you have your revenue streams set up the right way, you can be confident the dollars are rolling in no matter what — Desmond Ong

Doing the right thing requires us to humanize the guestworker upon
whom we have come to rely. Thus, establishing a worker program must
be done in a manner that provides the workers with hope for membership
and respect from other Americans. A path toward legalization becomes
a critical ingredient of any guestworker program. Only through that path
can these individuals attain a sense of enfranchisement and freedom
from political subjugation and servitude. — Bill Ong Hing

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose, — Jeremy Lin

(L)ong>ongong> term fundamental change can only come when we search our selves, our souls, our spirits, for an inner peace that can then reflect outwards in our actions. — Joyce D'Silva

Not all the things you understand are the truth, and not all the things you don't understand are lies. — Bob Ong

We're strong>ongong>; We're very dedicated to what we do; We believe in ourselves; We go for what we want in life; We've made a mark in this world for ourselves. — Sable

We cannot go back to the lost oral world, any more than we can turn the clock back to a time before the clock existed.40 "Writing and print and the computer," writes Walter Ong, "are all ways of technologizing the word" and once technologized, the word cannot be de-technologized.41 But the world of the screen, as we're already coming to understand, is a very different place from the world of the page. A new intellectual ethic is taking hold. The pathways in our brains are once again being rerouted. — Nicholas Carr

I'm a bad person, like you, in the same way that you are a good person, like me. — Bob Ong

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion. — Walter J. Ong

Knowing the man responsible for your success is in the mirror is a high that you can never buy — Desmond Ong

If we try to complicate our lives, developing clever plans and ambitions, we lose sight of the way in which small, insignificant things actually hold the key to what we seek. — Yi-Ping Ong

Pride is like a beard. It is just keeps growing; the solution?- Shave it every day. — George Ong

My loyalty is first and foremost, to the people of Singapore. It has always been so, and will always remain so. — Ong Teng Cheong

There is no way to write unless you read, and read a lot. — Walter J. Ong

The problem is, lahat na lang kasi ng pelikula pinipilit gawing pampamilya. one size fits all. kaya tuloy ang material for movies nagiging too mature for kids and too cheesy for adults. — Bob Ong

The recovery of ethics under neoliberalism requires a multiplicity of factors- not just governments- who can create overlapping spheres of justice to achieve a complex equality for the laboring power in America and elsewhere. The question remains whether the political sphere continues to be a vital force in the struggle for democratic rights beyond the human needs of hidden, exploited refugee and immigrant workers. — Aihwa Ong

For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous — Walter J. Ong

To see the universe as it truly is, is to see what we call chaos. That which we call order is merely our own apophenia at work. — Joseph Matheny

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas. — Red McCombs

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it. — Patrick Rothfuss

Life was truly great and it was all because of me. — Desmond Ong

Learners are doers, not recipients. — Walter J. Ong

I was out loving life instead of in some office hating it — Desmond Ong

almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge. — Neil Postman

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity. — John C. Maxwell

Self love is the only way to a high quality love life. The quality of men and love relationships you have experienced is a direct result of the degree of love you have for yourself. Once you do the inner work to love yourself completely, you will have a wonderful and fulfilling love life beyond your dreams. — Janet Ong Zimmerman

That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me. — Sylvia Day

Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness. — Walter J. Ong

There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-being, gives you the freedom to live your life, and stretches you to become your best self. — Janet Ong Zimmerman

One block at a time. — Willie T. Ong