Bodhidharma Quotes
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.
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I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
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If we're going to save the planet, people are going to have to live in ways that don't require so much energy and don't create as much waste. The only way to do that is to live more densely than Americans are living right now.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
