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

• All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Think
  • Star
  • Listening

• Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Fear
  • Suffering
  • Blessing

• Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Risk

• Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.

  

  Bernard Darwin
  • Wise
  • Golf
  • Minds

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Possession
  • Foolish
  • Guards