Satish Kumar Quotes
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
