Eliot Pattison Quotes

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood.

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• Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Children
  • Woman
  • Understands

• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Sell
  • Understands

• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Master
  • Understands

• Those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.

  

  Confucius
  • Understands
  • Enjoys
  • Appreciates

• He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learned
  • Controls
  • Understands

• How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Understands
  • Move On

• Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?

  

  Martin Luther
  • God's Word
  • Understands
  • God's Works

• Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

  

  Homer
  • Fool
  • Harm
  • Understands

• In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Help
  • Way
  • Understands

• Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

  

  Andrea Camilleri
  • Friendship
  • Ask
  • Understands

• That's a baseball mom. I thought it was pretty admirable of my mom. She said she understands the amount of injuries we have around here, and the time of year it is, and she felt bad about it.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Bad
  • Felt
  • Injuries

• I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Game
  • Football
  • Player

• Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Together
  • Age
  • Quality

• A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Together
  • Kind
  • Dignity

• I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Madness
  • Wit

• My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

  

  Steve Irwin
  • Passion
  • Television
  • Wildlife

• I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Live
  • America
  • Eleven

• I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • I Consider
  • Recipient
  • Good Rule

• It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Creation
  • Final

• There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Edge

• The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Understands
  • Buddhahood