Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
J. J. Abrams -
Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
Kaley Cuoco -
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung -
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
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I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.
Elmore Leonard -
If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone.
Chen Guangbiao -
I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
N. F. Simpson -
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
E. M. Forster -
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.
Ric Keller -
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost -
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
John Ensign -
A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Albert Einstein -
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron
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Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.
Bob Jones, Sr. -
What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
Natalie Cole -
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
William Congreve -
Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.
Kathy Smith -
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
Jacques Lacan -
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa