Dalai Lama Quotes

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

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• Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • She
  • Book
  • Success

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Real
  • Pain

• Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • More
  • Left
  • Irritating

• We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Game
  • Culture

• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Goals
  • Give
  • Him

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Up
  • Creative
  • Commitment

• I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Society
  • Strong
  • Myself

• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • World
  • Reason
  • Loved

• If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • May
  • Party
  • Problem

• For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Me
  • Best
  • Partner

• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Career
  • Community
  • Doubt

• Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • Strong

• When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Young
  • Really
  • Riding

• Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Good

• The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Economy
  • Changing
  • Dependence

• Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Spiritual
  • Kindness