Entering Quotes - Page 14

• Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dark, Light, Hands

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• The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.

  Michael Beckwith

  Karma, Support, Next

  Michael Bernard Beckwith (2009). “Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

  Wes Anderson

  Romantic, Years, Feelings

  "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'" by Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• As the New Earth approaches, our way of thinking is being challenged more and more. The Veil is thinning and lifting as our consciousness expands. This is a requirement for entering the new dimension with the raising of our vibrations and frequencies. The old paradigms and archaic belief systems must fall to the wayside to make room for the new.

  Dolores Cannon

  Fall, Thinking, Veils

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• The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

  James Branch Cabell

  Tunnels, Light, Track

  The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

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• I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

  Richard Florida

  Creativity, Keys, Creative

  Richard Florida (2010). “The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Ocean, Sky

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers”, p.171, Mango Media Inc.

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• Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Regret, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

  Paul Kropp

  Inspirational, Dream, Book

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• Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Circles, Forever, Full Circle

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!

  David Farragut

  Speed, Damn, Admiral

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• The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

  Rachel Maddow

  Names, United States, Prejudice

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• So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

  Paul Ryan

  Retirement, Cutting, Europe

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Different, World, Backgrounds

  Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.

  Adrienne Rich

  Eye, Self, Survival

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• You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Needs, Use, World

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• It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

  Howard Rheingold

  Teenager, World, Sophisticated

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teaching, Rivers, Needs

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• The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States.

  Steve Inskeep

  Party, Presidential, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, School, Fundraising

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• I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

  John Major

  Regret, Rate, Mechanism

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• The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Needs, Able

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, Image

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• I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Party, Eye

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• There is no doubt that thanks to the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and to rebuild it on a new foundation, we are entering into the new year with new confidence that America is coming back.

  Barack Obama

  Confidence, New Year, Years

  "Obama promotes auto industry bailout as a policy that worked". www.foxnews.com. January 7, 2015.

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• I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Costumes, Manson

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