Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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What is power without control?
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.
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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.
