Gautama Buddha Quotes

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

Gautama Buddha

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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Infrastructure
  • Kenya

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • People
  • Lucky
  • Weight

• I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Planning

• It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
  • Me
  • Trouble

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Fun
  • Management
  • Workplace

• 'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Great
  • Why
  • Character

• The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Family
  • Friends
  • True

• Without bigging it up extremely, it was something which brought people together, so they realised something was possible.

  

  Peter Campbell McNeish Buzzcocks
  • People
  • Possible
  • Extremely

• Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.

  

  Hadley Freeman
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Like You

• There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Touch
  • Neighbors
  • Magnificent

• We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.

  

  David Benatar
  • Children
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Experience
  • American
  • Control

• We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Experience
  • Learn
  • Cpacity