Brad Warner Quotes

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

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• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Never

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• I love nature.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Love
  • Nature
  • I Love

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • World
  • Trying
  • Day

• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lucky

• I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Think
  • Irish
  • Genetics

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Bitter

• I live, to get out of what I live through.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Live

• Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

  

  Bud Abbott

• All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • School
  • Science
  • Past

• You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Football
  • Teacher

• We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

  

  William Glasser
  • Long
  • School
  • Teacher

• Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Substance

• [To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Teacher
  • Attracted
  • Zen