Nirmala Srivastava (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi) Quotes

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.

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• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• I play as I feel.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Play
  • Feel
  • I Feel

• The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Me
  • Best
  • Experiences

• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Art
  • Same

• I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • See
  • Hiding

• For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Day
  • Better
  • Favorite

• I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Career
  • You
  • Rest

• I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Always
  • Playing
  • Drunk

• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • You
  • Me
  • Health

• I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Coffee

• I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Women
  • Future

• To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Time

• When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • American
  • Red

• I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

  

  Ato Boldon
  • Football

• In general, I've been treated well by reviews, and there are times when I haven't. The truth is that I've come to feel like I'm better off without reading them.

  

  Jake Kasdan
  • Truth
  • Reading

• Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • America
  • Gold Standard
  • Panics

• When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • Community
  • First

• God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Love
  • Hand
  • Working

• Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Trying
  • Spirit
  • Meditation