Eric Maisel Quotes

If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

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• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Know
  • Leader

• I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Write
  • Wanted
  • Word

• We have to be concerned about future obligations.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Future
  • Concerned
  • Obligations

• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  

  T. H. White
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Window
  • Mirrors
  • Unhappiness

• Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Change

• The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Inspiration
  • Grew Up
  • Shakespeare

• There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Person

• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

  

  Gary Player
  • Golf
  • Legs
  • Swing

• Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Dangerous
  • Wedded

• If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Heaven
  • Consider
  • Punishment

• I never killed a man who didn't need it.

  

  Clay Allison
  • Man
  • Killed

• Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Problem
  • Consciousness
  • Program

• All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Values

• There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dangerous
  • Consequence
  • Mistaking

• If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Consciousness
  • Masters
  • Killed