Jack Kornfield Quotes
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
