Adi Shankara Quotes

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

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• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Pretty
  • Hot
  • Too

• In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Purpose

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Fear
  • Support
  • Eyes

• I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Character
  • Comedy

• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • First
  • Feet
  • Three

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Place

• I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Girl
  • Cook
  • Eggs

• I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Silence

• Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Car

• The location was very difficult to get to. I recall rock-climbing a good deal of the way in that long skirt, and I felt terrible for the crew members who had to haul the heavy equipment. For some reason, they couldn't get there by helicopter.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Good
  • Long
  • Rock

• Perhaps one of the few positive aspects of the coup is that it has discredited the claim that that that the state had been taken over by the Brotherhood under Morsi.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Brotherhood

• Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Power
  • Future

• Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Music

• As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

  

  James Carville
  • Water

• The way is long and dreary,The path is bleak and bare;Our feet are worn and weary,But we will not despair;More weary was Thy burden,More desolate Thy ways,O Lamb of God, who takestThe sin of the world away,Have mercy upon us.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • World
  • God
  • Long

• I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I believe you can never fail in life or love. You just produce results. It's up to you how you interpret those results.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Knowledge
  • Wall

• Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

  

  Adi Shankara
  • World
  • Reality
  • Underlying