Gautama Buddha Quotes

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

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• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Very
  • Open-minded

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Religion
  • Talk

• Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • California
  • Year

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • School
  • Friends

• Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • You
  • Know
  • Maybe

• A library implies an act of faith.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Faith
  • Library
  • Act

• I'm always going to love my father.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Always
  • Going

• I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Like
  • Details
  • Honestly

• Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Played

• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Power
  • Choose

• I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Together
  • Help

• She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • She
  • Age
  • Legend

• When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Up
  • Farmer

• I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.

  

  Kenza Fourati
  • World
  • Country
  • Spring

• Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Done

• You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • People
  • Want
  • Loud

• All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reality
  • Easy
  • Author

• People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Reality

• The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Reality
  • Speak
  • Self