Erich Schiffmann Quotes

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

Erich Schiffmann

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• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Media

• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Why
  • Man

• Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Love
  • Me
  • Peace

• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Media
  • Bring

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• To secure peace is to prepare for war.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Prepare

• Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Peace
  • Kind
  • Difficult

• I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Practice
  • Better

• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Home
  • House
  • Dream

• In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

  

  Sallust
  • Life
  • Practice
  • My Own

• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Peace
  • Running
  • Humanity

• The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Peace

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • Peace

• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Music
  • Practice

• There's a very long and consistent track record on the part of Hillary Clinton, and it's not been favorable to women, to children, to the cause of peace, justice, and a sustainable climate.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Long
  • Women
  • Children

• One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Great
  • Age
  • Today

• At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

  

  Max McKeown
  • Fashion
  • Leaving

• Applied properly, it logic can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

  

  Christopher Paolini
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• Custom is the great guide to human life.

  

  David Hume
  • Life
  • Great

• Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Peace
  • Practice
  • Infinite