Colleen Saidman Quotes

Life is full of acceptance and rejection. Unfortunately, many of us focus on the rejection. Yoga tells us it’s more useful to practice swaha, the idea of which is do the best you can, and let go of the rest. Tibetan Buddhists often translate swaha as “so be it.” Swaha is the rudder that can help us maintain equilibrium.

Colleen Saidman

• Practice
• Yoga
• Equilibrium
• Rudder
• Swaha

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Bank

• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • She
  • Amazing

• If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Control

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • True
  • Picture

• In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Find

• I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Guy
  • Gun
  • Guitar

• The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • Dark
  • Connection

• Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Past

• People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Angry

• The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Good
  • Work
  • Help

• Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

  

  Phil Ochs

• I'm lazy. I don't practice enough. I do other stuff. I'm not a musician's musician, and I don't necessarily know if I want to be. When I hear something and want to work on it, then that's what my project will be.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Lazy

• One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Practice
  • Bridge
  • Tragedies

• Present is the reality. The past is finished, and the future doesn't exist. When the Kundalini rises She elongates those thoughts and establishes in the center where there is complete thoughtless awareness. And spiritually you grow in that thoughtless awareness which in Sanskrit we call as Nirvichaar Samadhi.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Eyes
  • Battle
  • Crying

• Life is full of acceptance and rejection. Unfortunately, many of us focus on the rejection. Yoga tells us it’s more useful to practice swaha, the idea of which is do the best you can, and let go of the rest. Tibetan Buddhists often translate swaha as “so be it.” Swaha is the rudder that can help us maintain equilibrium.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Equilibrium