Adi Shankar Quotes

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

Adi Shankar

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Together
  • Support
  • Desire

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Desire

• When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Desire
  • Do The Right Thing

• I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lost

• I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Never

• Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Down

• Desire is the essence of a man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Essence

• For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Power
  • Happy

• This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions - never.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Desire
  • Weird
  • Famous

• The teacher offers guidance here and there, but the primary factor, the driving force, in your relationship and work together is the student's own commitment and desire to learn. Teaching is like sailing: The wind and the sails give the boat its motion. Your role (as a teacher) is to steer and guide.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Work
  • Together
  • Relationship

• It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Power
  • True

• The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

  

  David Suzuki
  • May
  • Desire

• The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Music
  • Desire

• There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun

• The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • People
  • Live
  • Truth

• He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.

  

  Charles Dickens

• I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that's visually iconic, or emotionally that way.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Moment

• I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

  

  Adi Shankar
  • Desire
  • Ways
  • Entertain