Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
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Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
