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

• Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Money
  • Character
  • Truth

• 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

• I don't really like to stand in one spot. People say that you have your lane or a certain type of music. I don't believe that. You choose your own lane, whichever one you want, then the people decide whether it's good or not.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Music
  • People
  • Decide

• Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

  

  William Manchester
  • Dresses
  • Mess
  • Polite

• If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • World
  • Want
  • Famous

• God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you’re present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • God
  • You
  • Present

• 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