Eknath Easwaran Quotes
But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I've grown up a lot, and I have such great memories of playing football.
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I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.
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Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.
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I found myself right in the middle of an absolute hotbed of Nazi intrigue. All the Jewish shops had 'Jude' daubed over the windows, and the Jews themselves were attacked.
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
