Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Alan Moore

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Alan Hovhaness

There is nothing like practice.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

Chogyam Trungpa

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Chogyam Trungpa

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

David Korten

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

E. B. White

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Delmore Schwartz

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Malcolm Bradbury

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Leonhard Euler

Now I will have less distraction.

Nik Wallenda

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

Bodhidharma

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Bodhidharma

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Joseph Jarman

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

Nisha Singhania

The relationship with the husband used to be one of awe. Now, women want a partner and a relationship of equals. They want to marry a man like Greg of Dharma and Greg or Chandler of Friends.

Robert M. Pirsig

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.