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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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
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When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.
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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.
