S. N. Goenka Quotes

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

S. N. Goenka

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Time
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  • Professional

• I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Think
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• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
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• I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
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• I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Money
  • Free
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• Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Love
  • Protect
  • Comfort

• I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Drama
  • Skills
  • Group

• I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Love
  • Book
  • Passion

• I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  

  Imran Khan
  • House
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• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  

  Pat Oliphant
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• If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
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  • Act

• I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

  

  Kate Morton
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  • Book
  • Hope

• On my first day in office as President Quavo, I'd move my whole family into the White House. Second, I'd pull all the troops back. Third, I'd raise the minimum wage to a good, nice amount so people get paid.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

  

  Edmund White
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• It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

  

  Hans Vestberg
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  • Energy

• The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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  • God
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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  

  Eve Merriam
  • War
  • Dream
  • Birth

• The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

  

  S. N. Goenka