Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Silence is also conversation.

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nothing
  • Conversation

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Idea
  • Wrong
  • Conversation

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Great
  • Conversation

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Up
  • Day
  • Car

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Relationship
  • Conversation
  • Difficulty

• A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  

  Marie Stopes
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

  

  Amanda Peet
  • Good
  • Friend

• We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.

  

  Burton Malkiel
  • Riskier
  • Hedge funds

• I was looking for joy Yes, yes, yes, yes When I was little bitty boy If I would have known what makes a world go 'round I would have known what goes up must come down If you love me like I love you Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • World
  • Joy

• No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Heart
  • Passion

• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
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