Nyogen Senzaki Quotes

When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

Nyogen Senzaki

• Running
• Decision
• Spiritual
• Worry
• Meditation
• Intuition

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• May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Important
  • Me
  • Control

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reputation
  • Potential

• Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Good
  • You
  • Fire

• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

  

  Eddie Money
  • You
  • Look
  • Same

• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
  • Free

• The peace we seek in the world begins in human hearts. And it finds its glorious expression when we look beyond any differences in religion or tribe, and rejoice in the beauty of every soul. ... Do we act with compassion and empathy. ... we have to guard against any efforts to divide ourselves along sectarian lines or any other lines.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Soul
  • Peace

• So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Fear

• No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Success
  • Journey
  • Persistent

• All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

  

  George Will
  • Children
  • Chaos
  • Authority

• I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

  

  Nyogen Senzaki
  • Running
  • Decision
  • Spiritual