Ji Kang Quotes

Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.

Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women

There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work.

Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product.

She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

I'm not superman who saves both Earth and the girl.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.

I felt that if others can overcome incredible challenges to be in shape, why would my story be any different?

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race. And that includes you, professor, listening to this testimony. As it includes myself.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.

Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed.

Trust no one, I scold myself. Even if they smell good.

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.

Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_.

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people

Cosmopolitanism is a radical affirmation of the idea of neighbor/enemy-love-as-self love...Cosmopolitanism is about a cosmic scope of justice and hospitality––another name for _love_.

I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

The question is not, therefore, _whether_ a theory is grand or small, or whether it is universal/global or particular/local, but _what function_ a theory plays and _whose interest_ it serves.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

Theological discourse can be, in and of itself, a form of identity and solidarity.

How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?