Ramakrishna Quotes
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
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It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
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My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
