Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.

Henepola Gunaratana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: December 7, 1927

Topics

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Most people who recognize me don't even know my name. They just yell out ''Catfish!'' or 'Where's Nev?' or sometimes just 'Nev!'

Max Joseph

PeopleMeNameKnowSometimesOut

Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.

Sturgill Simpson

WorkHomeMusicYouBackLiving

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Jason Patric

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President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

Jon Meacham

LosingNameNowPresidentRepublican

As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do.

David Thewlis

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Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

Christopher Lee

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A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Clyde Edgerton

ParentingChildPeopleBookPerson

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

Wilma Rudolph

YouMatterAccomplishmentsSomebody

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Shania Twain

MeBeing DifferentDoingFindMy Own

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

Rick Smolan

GoodTechnologyTimeEvilInternet

Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.

Rick Moranis

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