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• But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Leadership, Passion, Thinking

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• Anyone involved with songwriting will testify to the fact that each song, no matter how pure or from the heart, has its own story, its own peculiar way of getting written.

  C. Sigman

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Writing, Moon

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• Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Mirrors, Meditation

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• Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Piano, Space

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Selfish, Tangled

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

  Barry Long

  Life, Love You, Love Is

  "Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview". Interview with Hal Blacker, 1995.

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• ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Organization, Vision

  Barack Obama's speech on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

  Lucy Grealy

  Pain, Simple, Anxiety

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Children, Writing

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• By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need a mind without thoughts. In other words, you need a no-mind, just a pure silence, so you can see directly into things. And out of that clarity will come the choice on its own; you are not choosing. You will act just as a buddha acts. Your action will have beauty, your action will have truth, your action will have the fragrance of the divine. There is no need for you to choose.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Choices, Silence

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• The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. "It is unfortunate," he said, "that the Lutherans were here before me." By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhism, Japan, Land

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Feelings, Action

  "Life Thoughts".

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• You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Love, Honesty, Clean

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• The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling-and it washed over me.

  Anne Lamott

  Song, Kids, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.49, Anchor

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• It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

  Vera Farmiga

  Excitement, Moments, Terror

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure awareness, and you have a taste of eternity and immortality.

  Rajneesh

  Self, Space, Mind

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• Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Thinking, Effort

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• The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or in other words, the whole art consists of one word, "surrender". And that's what sannyas is, that's my definition of a sannyasin: a man who is surrendered to existence so totally that he never thinks in terms of achievement any more, because he is no more. Who is there to achieve? - he has disappeared totally, he has not left even a trace behind. In that very moment, when you are just a pure nothingness, truth arrives. It is a gift of God.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Art, Men

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• The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

  Frederick Soddy

  Air, Snow, Feelings

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• The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him'

  Pope Pius XII

  Jesus, Blood, Soul

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• Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.

  Jordana Brewster

  Kindness, Guy, Credit

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• I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

  Michael Pitt

  Thinking, Risk, Important

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• Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.

  B.J. Penn

  Fighting, Fighter, Chaos

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• I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse for the way the "songwriter" is robbed by everyone from the record company to the broadcaster, by the pure bottom line, greed. If it continues, sadly, in time, the music will suffer. It takes many many years to learn how to write a song properly. Songwriters will be forced to hit the road in order to make a decent living and, in my opinion, these two careers are related but not compatible.

  Mickey Newbury

  Song, Writing, Order

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