Chinmayananda Saraswati (Swami Chinmayananda Saraswatiwas) Quotes

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Single
  • Effort

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Money
  • Violence

• We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

  

  Rain
  • Wind
  • Rain
  • Tangled

• 'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Journey

• As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • People
  • Study
  • Bored

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Lies

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Faith
  • Lost

• I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Cowboy

• I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Waiting

• Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Angry

• There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

  

  Jessica Cutler
  • Reality

• What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • World
  • Character
  • Help

• Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Universe

• Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • May
  • Father
  • Prayer

• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Knowledge

• Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Prayer
  • Curiosity
  • Integration