Gautama Buddha Quotes

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

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• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Loved
  • Structure
  • Shape

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Follow
  • Politicians
  • Aims

• We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Shape

• It isn't hard to stay in shape.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Shape
  • Stay

• In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Constitution
  • Duty
  • Guides

• I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • My Life

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Habit
  • Differences
  • Hearts

• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Men
  • Needs

• To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.

  

  Kevin Peter Hall
  • Teach
  • Shows
  • Grows

• I don't understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Understand
  • Shape
  • Manage

• What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Happiness
  • Duties
  • Aims

• Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Happiness
  • Evolution
  • Aims

• Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Aims

• God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

  

  Queen Christina
  • God
  • Form
  • Shape

• The National Socialist Movement, which aims at establishing the National Socialist People's State, must always bear steadfastly in mind the principle that every future institution under that State must be rooted in the movement itself.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Movement
  • State
  • Institution

• Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Shape
  • Absurd

• You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Suicide
  • Shape
  • Olympic

• My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

  

  Carol Ross Barney
  • Children
  • Mother
  • President

• Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Think
  • Writing A Book
  • Unpublished

• I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Page

• As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Shape
  • Guides
  • Aims