Nachman of Breslov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
-
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
-
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
-
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
-
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
-
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
-
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
-
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
-
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
-
I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
-
The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
-
My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
-
Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
-
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
-
Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
-
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
-
I am pleased with our offensive approach and our competitive at bats. If we play 27 outs we are going to give ourselves an opportunity.
-
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
-
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
-
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
-
Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.
