Eugen Herrigel Quotes
Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A. J. P. Taylor
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
Ram Dass
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
Ranbir Kapoor
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
Zig Ziglar
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
Karl Urban
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
Larry Kirshbaum
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Garry Shandling
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
Yair Lapid
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The physical carrier is overshadowed by a relation. The relation creates an overtone. The physical carrier is absorbed by this overtone. The overtone spontaneously transforms the means of creation into a spiritual reality. The mystery of creation is then revealed.
Hans Hofmann
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to any thing but power for their relief.
Edmund Burke
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
Finley Peter Dunne
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
Bertrand Russell
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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
Arundhati Roy
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I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.
Charlie Trotter
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The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.
David Dunbar Buick
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Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.
Emily VanCamp
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You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.
Esther Hicks
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Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.
Eugen Herrigel