Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Mother

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Your

• I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Hits and flops are overrated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hits
  • Overrated
  • Flops

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

  

  Edith Head
  • Audience
  • Clothes
  • Motto

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Play
  • Perception

• I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • The Right Thing

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.

  

  Peter Levine
  • Work
  • Power
  • History

• I have kind of an iron stomach.

  

  Joey Fatone NSYNC

• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Calm

• Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Music
  • Family
  • Art

• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Food
  • Planning

• It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Family
  • Except
  • Enlightened