Deepak Chopra Quotes

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Deepak Chopra

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• Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Military
  • Morality
  • African

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I'm a composer, man.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Man
  • Composer

• I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Direction

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Fun
  • Control
  • Find

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Cooking

• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Together
  • Thoughts
  • Company

• Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Think
  • I Can
  • Throw

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Black
  • Best
  • Color

• We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Bad
  • Chance

• Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Certain

• I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Attitude

• Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Knowledge
  • Impression
  • Direct

• The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Life