Ajahn Chah Quotes

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

Ajahn Chah

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• In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.

  

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• We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

  

  Damon Lindelof
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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
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• My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

  

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• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
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• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
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• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
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• I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • War
  • Lost
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• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
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• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
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• I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • Quality
  • Audience

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
  • Kids
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• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
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• Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

  

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• When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Up
  • Thinking
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• Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Great
  • Suffering

• Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Truth
  • Suffering
  • Salvation

• If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Suffering
  • Certainty
  • Bounds