Dalai Lama Quotes

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

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• If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Future
  • Way

• Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Vote

• I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Resistance

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • History
  • Science
  • Thought

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Brother

• You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Congress
  • Jewish
  • Some

• I do not have very much office experience.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Office

• I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Live
  • Country
  • Movies

• I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Culture
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Know
  • Best
  • Dance

• I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • World
  • Important
  • Thought

• No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Judge

• If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Business
  • Team
  • Player

• If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you're lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote. Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Water
  • Sky
  • Price

• It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • You
  • Challenge

• I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'

  

  Charles Dance
  • School
  • Fun

• As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

  

  Dalai Lama