S. N. Goenka Quotes
If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
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Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.
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When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
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A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
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If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
