Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.
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One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
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Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.
