Ramana Maharshi Quotes
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
-
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
-
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov -
I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
-
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
-
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
-
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
-
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
-
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
-
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
-
Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
-
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
-
There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
-
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
-
That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
-
If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.
-
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
-
The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
-
At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
-
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
-
I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
-
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.
-
There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.
-
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
