Gautama Buddha Quotes

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

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• The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Heaven

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Gentleman

• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Model

• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Growth

• Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Free

• If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Democracy

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Black
  • City

• Sit down, Willy.

  

  Arthur Miller

• Well, it was a church person in the early days, Mahalia Jackson. And Rosetta Tharpe. These spiritual, very strong voices. I only knew that they were figures in the black race, recognizable and respected. But I must admit, I've always covered the songs of males. I haven't followed up on women or listened to that much women's music.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Up
  • Music
  • Women

• When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

  

  Al McGuire
  • Winning

• The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mind
  • Road
  • Need

• It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • Important
  • Exercise
  • Workout

• As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all too common when a company goes from zero to something to hopefully an IPO.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Up
  • Team
  • Growth

• I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • People
  • Future
  • Diversity

• You can expect a record that I put together for you to make you feel good, a record that I put together to make you think, a record to transport you into whatever mood you want to be in. I hope that people associate my name with the brand, and I hope that people associate that brand with excellence. So, you can expect an excellent record.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Why
  • Want
  • Play

• Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Done
  • Running
  • Doing

• Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Earth
  • Water

• As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Flower
  • Practices
  • Scentless