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

• It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Words
  • Value
  • Shape

• My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Father
  • Hero
  • Uncle

• Sometimes you start a little further back from the starting line. And you're going to have to work a little bit harder, and push it faster to get to the finish. I'm willing to put in the work, to compensate for other things, to get ahead, to get to where I want to be.

  

  Nick Newell
  • Work
  • Line
  • Get Ahead

• If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Home
  • History
  • Deep

• The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

  

  Steve Burke
  • Entertainment
  • Channels
  • Cable

• 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