Dalai Lama Quotes
If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.
Quotes to Explore
-
I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
-
I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
-
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
-
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
-
There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
-
Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
-
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
-
The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
-
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
-
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
-
When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
-
By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
-
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
-
I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
-
It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
-
I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
-
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
-
Messi is a Playstation.
-
There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.
-
I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
-
If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.
