Dalai Lama Quotes
The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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Habits change into character.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.
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A defendant who commences and continues to build a project, while a lawsuit is pending which challenges the legality of such a project, continues at the risk of abatement.
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I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.
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I have been lucky to be surrounded by other great working moms, like Tina Fey. I've certainly taken a lot of advice from her in every realm, from actor choices to mom choices.
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It was mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence, wherein the mind appears to play only with itself, that turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe that are concealed by appearances.
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The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.
