Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
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Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
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Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.
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My parents were the exact opposite of stage parents. They did everything in their power to keep it from happening. But it was going to happen no matter what. I was like, 'Thanks for raising me, but I'm going to take it from here.'
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
