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"Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice."
"Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you."
"I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope."
"You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it."
"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
"One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you."
"You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher."
"As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope."
"So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you."
"I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives."
"Personally, in real life, Im a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous."
"I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way."
"I could happily lie down and die sometimes."
"There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise."
"I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4"
"When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise."
"The best weapon is to sit down and talk."
"I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so."
"Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice."
"There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know."
