Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyleen Tausaga

Our errors really killed us. We weren't really hitting at all.

C. S. Lewis

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Charles Bukowski

there's no defense except all the errors made

Jim Patrick

Errors are killing us. We made four errors and they were crucial.

Whit Cornell

Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.

Corey Held

We should be set and we shouldn't make errors for the next three games. We'll work on fielding tomorrow.

Stand Watie

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

Rollo May

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Mike Tyson

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

John Piper

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Moby

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we're not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. But biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Martin Filler

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Lesley Visser

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

David Viscott

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Diablo Cody

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Denzel Washington

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).

Benjamin Disraeli

Meditation is culture.

Dan Harris

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

Dalai Lama

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

David Lynch

The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

Anne Lamott

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.

Rajneesh

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

Rajneesh

Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Swami Vivekananda

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Simone Weil

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.