Anthony de Mello Quotes
The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
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Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.
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The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'
