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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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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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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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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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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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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Sudden and magnificent, the sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; and the first rays, shooting across the level water-meadows, took the animals full in the eyes and dazzled them. When they were able to look once more, the Vision had vanished, and the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
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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.
