Gary Snyder Quotes
Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
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Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
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I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
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I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.
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What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
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Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.
