S. N. Goenka Quotes

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

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• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
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• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
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• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Death is a monster; death is horrible.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Death
  • Monster
  • Horrible

• I go into hair and makeup, and I turn into 'Victoria Beckham.'

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • View
  • Conditions

• That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

  

  Sting The Police
  • People
  • Failure

• The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana

• When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.

  

  Emma Roberts

• I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Work
  • Great
  • She

• Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you're talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube's space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of 'VGHS' properly.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • People

• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Heart

• Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Future

• Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Work
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• Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Experience

• I believe love's grip transcends gender. It transcends everything short of a very few primal needs like hunger, thirst, a need for oxygen.

  

  Lauren Kate
  • Believe

• People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • People
  • Book

• As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

  

  Van Jones
  • Work
  • Green
  • Jobs

• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• If the play works in an emotional and engaging way purely from what's on the page, then what's on the stage will be the icing on the cake. If the play didn't work as a play on its own terms, none of the magic, none of the special effects or theatricality of it all, would add up to anything.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Emotional
  • Magic
  • Special

• In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.

  

  George Andrews
  • Strong
  • Technology
  • Mathematics

• The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

  

  S. N. Goenka
  • Buddha