Chogyam Trungpa Quotes
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
-
I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
-
I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
-
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
-
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
-
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
-
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
-
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
-
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
-
Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
-
I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
-
I hate competition.
-
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
-
I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
-
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
-
There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
-
I never met a stripe I didn't like.
-
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
-
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny, the racism, the economic struggle, all of it? You need those people saying you're a good mom, a great writer. You're a great dresser. You cook well. Whatever the beauty is that you need to hear.
-
If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
-
Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.
-
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
-
I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.
-
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
