Quotes by Jonny Kim - Page 1

I applied to zero colleges.
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Zero
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Colleges
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I live in Boston so I'm used to small spaces.
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Boston
Spaces
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When I was a young kid, I didn't have a lot of confidence.
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Confidence
Young Kid
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All things that are worthwhile are very difficult to obtain.
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All Things
Difficult
Worthwhile
Obtain
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You're going to learn a lot every time you fail. So embrace that.
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Embrace
Every Time
Fail
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Once someone is no longer a threat, you look at them like anybody else.
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Threat
Look Someone Like
Anybody Else
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Never in a million years would I have thought I could have been an astronaut candidate.
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Astronaut
Candidate
Never Thought Would
Million Years
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Ego is probably one of the biggest poisons we can have - it's toxic to any environment.
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Ego
Environment
Toxic
Any
Biggest
Poisons
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My only expectation, which I tell my kids very, very often, is that they follow their heart.
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Expectation
Follow
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I think living with humility, and serving with humility, is one of the most important things humans can do.
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Humility
Important Things
Serving
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My parents were South Korean immigrants who came to America in the early 80s for the hope of a better life for their children.
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Better Life
Immigrants
Life Hope Better
Early
Life Hope Children
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Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.
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Curiosity
Hunger
Passion
Unknown
Away
Go Away
Maintain
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Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.
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Calling
Done
Higher
Success Yourself Me
Name
Improves
Service
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I didn't have the confidence from my childhood, but dreams are possible and all good things in life are hard to get, so persevere and don't give up!
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Confidence
Childhood
Good Things
Persevere
Life Dreams Good
Possible
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My kids, I love it when they tell me, 'Abba, I want to be an artist.' And I say, that is awesome... I just want you to be happy and to follow your heart.
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Abba
Follow Your Heart
Love Heart Your
Love Heart Me
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I fundamentally believed in the NASA mission of advancing our space frontier, all the while developing innovations and new technologies that would benefit all of humankind.
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Advancing
Humankind
Nasa
Frontier
Fundamentally
Innovations
New Technologies
Technologies
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I was good at school but I thought I sucked at everything else. I was socially scared of making relationships. High school was a big fail as the social experiment that it is.
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Scared
Everything Else
Experiment
Fail
Relationships
Socially
Sucked
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The SEALs were very good in teaching me hard skills - that means resilience, pushing past your mental and physical boundaries; and having an enormously high threshold for pain.
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Boundaries
Pushing
Resilience
Seals
Threshold
Good Pain Me
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My father was the classic epitome of a very hard immigrant-worker. He made up for his lack of education by working really hard... He worked six days a week for as long as I can remember.
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Classic
Epitome
Six
Week
Lack
Six Days
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Going into the Navy was the best decision I ever made in my life because it completely transformed that scared boy who didn't have any dreams to someone who started to believe in himself.
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Decision
Navy
Scared
Transformed
Life Dreams Best
Boy
Himself
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A lot of those soft skills - working with groups of people who I've never met before to accomplish a mission, adapting to personality types - those are skills I've learned outside the SEAL time.
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Accomplish
Adapting
Groups
Skills
Mission
Met
Seal
Types
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Controlled aggression, to me, is one of the most important traits to have. To have that social intelligence to know when to exert aggression in the military environment, and when to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Cool
Aggression
Calm
Controlled
Environment
Important
Military
Social
Stay Calm
Traits
Collected
Stay
Exert
The Most Important
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I was a really low-confident kid. I did have friends from playing sports - I played water polo and I swam. But at the heart of it, I was really scared of talking to people, and making friends, and making relationships.
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Friends
Sports
Polo
Scared
Talking
Water
Played
Making
Relationships
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I was told that with the right attitude, and with enough hard work, if you get up after every time you fail, you can amount to something and you can do positive work. You can leave a positive mark for our world, and that's what I aim to do.
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Positive
Attitude
Aim
Amount
Hard Work
Mark
Our World
Positive Time Work
Attitude Positive Time
Attitude Positive Work
Leave
Every Time
Fail
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I didn't like the person I was growing up to become. I needed to find myself and my identity. And for me, getting out of my comfort zone, getting away from the people I grew up with, and finding adventure, that was my odyssey, and it was the best decision I ever made.
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Adventure
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Decision
Growing Up
Identity
Needed
Odyssey
Zone
Best Myself Me
Finding
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I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to... start a new life for their family and their future families. At least with first-generation Asian-American immigrants, parents put so much risk in work and to provide the best for their children.
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Asian American
Immigrants
New Life
Life Best Family
Life Best Future
Sacrificed
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If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination.
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Attitude
Great
Challenges
Destination
Filled
Great Things
Hard
Hard Times
If I Could
Path
Self
Suffering
Way
Will
Things
Just
Talk
Lot
Along
Get
Younger
Could
Each
Each Time
Times
Say
Would
Up
Pass
Right
Reach
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I never want my children to ever feel like they need to be a SEAL, or that they need to go into medicine, or be an astronaut in order to please me - because I don't think that's very fair. I just want them to live their own lives. I don't hesitate at every opportunity to remind my children of that.
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Astronaut
Medicine
Opportunity Me Feel
Every Opportunity
Hesitate
Remind
Seal
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For me... after having some intense wartime experiences where I lost a lot of good friends that I've loved, I made a promise to those guys who died - that I'd do everything in my power for the rest of my life to make this world a better place. Because those men were great human beings and they left a void.
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Better Place
Promise
Void
Wartime
Life Good Power
Life Good Men
Good Friends
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High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student... but I think it's learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.
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Endeavor
Experiment
Interact
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I was pretty much nonexistent on the Internet before NASA, and that was really because I've been inspired by amazing sacrifices of people who did amazing things - jumping on grenades or sacrificing their lives or doing the most crazy, brave things without hesitation and never, ever seeking recognition for it. That was always very powerful for me.
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Amazing Things
Hesitation
Jumping
Nasa
Recognition
Seeking
Grenades
Nonexistent
Sacrifices
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