Walpola Rahula Quotes
If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
-
Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
-
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
-
In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
-
One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
-
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
-
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
-
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
-
To be looked at from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass' with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.
-
El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
-
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
-
There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
-
When I was growing up, I was watching Steffi... she taught me, actually, that I'm on a good way and try to believe in myself.
-
It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
-
Having an education is extremely valuable, but we need to help people connect their choice of studies to a potential career at an earlier age so that they are better prepared to get the job they want when the time comes.
-
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
-
It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers.
-
Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.
-
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.
-
I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
-
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
-
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
-
If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.
