Dalai Lama Quotes
Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.
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When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?
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If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.
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The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?
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I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.
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Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.
