Gautama Buddha Quotes

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

Gautama Buddha

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Today
  • Human
  • Relationships

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Time
  • Like
  • Glitter

• 'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'

  

  Connie Willis

• God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Kind

• I was glad I liked chemistry.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Chemistry

• I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Business
  • Career

• I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.

  

  Rachel Hawkins
  • Up
  • She
  • Hair

• If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Crazy
  • Laughter
  • Laughing

• Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

  

  Bahya ibn Paquda
  • Words
  • Meditation
  • Shell

• I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Respect
  • President

• I am not concerned about two successive defeats, ... I am just sad for the players that they haven't got their due rewards.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Players
  • Rewards
  • Defeats

• There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Player
  • Risk
  • Faces

• Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

  

  Ari Marcopoulos
  • Conservative
  • Holland
  • Calvinist

• I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Solitude

• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Satisfaction
  • Possession
  • Infinity

• But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! "It is my name," Athos said calmly. "But you said your name was d'Artagnan." "I?" "Yes, you." "That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Mountain
  • Name
  • Mistaken

• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Possession
  • Foolish
  • Guards