Brad Warner Quotes

Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

Brad Warner

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• When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Together
  • Friend

• I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Day
  • Always
  • Eating

• Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Emotional
  • Wine

• No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • No Idea

• Whenever I come out with a hit record, they'll say, 'Ah, that's because of R. Kelly. Oh, it's because of Ashanti. Oh, he's lucky.'

  

  Fat Joe
  • Say
  • Lucky
  • Oh

• Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Generation

• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Character
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Funny
  • Person

• Even miracles take a little time.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Take
  • Miracles

• It was quite an exhibition for three quarters Kobe put on. I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kobe

• The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • French
  • Wiser
  • Seem

• My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Light
  • Properties
  • Hypotheses

• I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Glad
  • I Know
  • Lessening

• No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Matter
  • Dead

• Cause I am a Superwoman, Yes I am, Yes she is, Even when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest, With an S on my chest, Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman, ... And all my sisters, Coming together, Say yes I will, Yes I can

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Together
  • Sister
  • Mess

• I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Results
  • Spinning
  • Charges

• The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

  

  Socrates
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Language

• Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Mess
  • Bliss
  • Trance