Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Quotes

The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
  • Matter
  • Horizon

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Home
  • Night
  • Nice

• I've just always been a bit of a dork.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Always
  • Just
  • Dork

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Judge
  • Bible
  • Our Lives

• It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • World
  • Way
  • Strange

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • You
  • Play

• 'I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day,' said Mr. Irwine. 'No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things'.

  

  George Eliot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Mirror

• I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Music

• Women in New Jersey and across the country should be very proud of Rep. Rothman for leading this bipartisan effort to provide commonsense, compassionate care to rape survivors in the emergency room. When it comes to solving serious problems like unintended pregnancy, Americans want answers from their elected officials, not silence. I stand proudly with Congressman Rothman in calling on Speaker Hastert to allow a vote on his legislation without further delays.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • Proud
  • New Jersey

• The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

  

  Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  • Mind