Cool Quotes....
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Don't ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country - John. F. Kennedy
The State has no business in the bedrooms of the nation - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Democracy is the best worst system - Sir Winston Churchill
One wishing to invade a state has to think twice about it - Machiavelli, can't remember it might be Sun Tzu
The State has no business in the bedrooms of the nation - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Democracy is the best worst system - Sir Winston Churchill
One wishing to invade a state has to think twice about it - Machiavelli, can't remember it might be Sun Tzu
"Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir."
"I think, therefore I am." - Rene Descartes (I think).
"I think it would be a good idea." (Mohandas Gandhi - when asked what he thought about western civilization.)
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill.
"I'm not a smart man... But I know what love is." - Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
I dont have enough time to list Oscar Wilde quotes, the man was simply a genious.
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. (and)
As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
- Mr. T
And my siggy.
Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir."
"I think, therefore I am." - Rene Descartes (I think).
"I think it would be a good idea." (Mohandas Gandhi - when asked what he thought about western civilization.)
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill.
"I'm not a smart man... But I know what love is." - Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
I dont have enough time to list Oscar Wilde quotes, the man was simply a genious.
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. (and)
As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
- Mr. T
And my siggy.
“Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; love does not take offense, and is not resentful, it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.”
-by i dont know who
i stole it from a msn profile
-by i dont know who
i stole it from a msn profile
It's from the bible (ironically enough in your case, lol):
1 Corinthians 13:4-8:
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited; It is never rude or selfish; It does not take offense, and it is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in truth; It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8:
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited; It is never rude or selfish; It does not take offense, and it is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in truth; It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
"he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined"
"For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer."
machiavelli
"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My music is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome."
"If God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does."
"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."
makaveli
"For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer."
machiavelli
"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My music is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome."
"If God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does."
"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."
makaveli
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Some of my favourite Bruce Lee quotes:
"Leave sagehood behind and enter once more into ordinary humanity. After coming to understand the other side, come back and live on this side. After the cultivation of no-cultivation, one's thoughts continue to be detached from phenomenal things and one still remains amid the phenomenal, yet devoid of the phenomenal.
Both the man and his surroundings are eliminated. Then, neither the man nor his surroundings ate eliminated. Walk on!
One can never be the master of his technical knowledge unless all his psychic hindrances are removed and he can keep his mind in a state of emptiness (fluidity), even purged of whatever technique he has obtained.
With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of jeet kune do attains its perfection.
The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning. Learning techniques corresponds to an intellectual apprehension of the philosophies in Zen, and in both Zen and ....., an intellectual proficiency does not cover the whole ground of the discipline. Both require the attainment of ultimate reality, which is the emptiness or the absolute. The latter transcends all modes of relativity.
In jeet kune do, all technique is to be forgotten and the unconscious is to be left alone to handle the situation. The technique will assert its wonders automatically or spontaneously. To float in totality, to have no technique, is to have all technique. The knowledge and skill you have achieved ate meant to be '"forgotten" so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. Learning is important but do not become its slave. Above all, do not harbor anything external and superfluous -- the mind is primary. Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
'To desire" is an attachment. "'To desire not to desire" is also an attachment. To be unattached then, means to be free at once from both statements, positive and negative. This is to be simultaneously both "yes" and "no," which is intellectually absurd. However, not so in Zen.
Nirvana is to be consciously unconscious or to be unconsciously conscious. That is its secret. The act is so direct and immediate that intellectualization finds no room to insert itself and cut the act to pieces.
The spirit is no doubt the controlling agent of our existence. This invisible seat controls every movement in whatever external situation arises. It is thus, to be extremely mobile, never "stopping" in any place at any moment. Preserve this state of spiritual freedom and non-attachment as soon as you assume the fighting stance. Be "master of the house."
It is the ego that stands rigidly against influences from the outside, and it is this "ego rigidity" that makes it impossible for us to accept everything that confronts us.
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
Seek not the cultivated innocence of a clever mind that wants to be innocent, but have rather that state of innocence where there is no denial or acceptance and the mind just sees what its.
All goals apart from the means are illusions. Becoming is a denial of being. By an error repeated throughout the ages, truth, becoming a law or a faith, places obstacles in the way of knowledge. Method, which is in its very substance ignorance, encloses truth within a vicious circle. We should break such a circle, not by seeking knowledge, but by discovering the cause of ignorance.
Recollection and anticipation are fine qualities of consciousness that distinguish the human mind from that of the lower animals. But, when actions are directly related to the problem of life and death, these properties must be relinquished for the sake of fluidity of thought and lightning rapidity of action.
Action is our relationship to everything. Action is not a matter of right and wrong. It is only when action is partial that there is a right and a wrong.
Don't let your attention be attested! Transcend dualistic comprehension of a situation.
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe the techniques as though not observing. Utilize the art as a means to advance in the study of the Way.
A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in the state of aware- ness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive; it includes everything.
Not being tense but ready, not thinking yet not dreaming, not being set but flexible - it is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
The jeet kune do man, should be on the alert to meet the interchangeability of opposites. As soon as his mind "stops" with either of them, it loses its own fluidity. He should keep his mind always in the state of emptiness so that his freedom in action will never be obstructed.
The abiding stage is the point where the mind hesitates to abide. It attaches itself to an object and stops the flow.
The deluded mind is the mind effectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
The wheel revolves when it is not too tightly attached to the axle. When the mind is tied up, it feels inhibited in every move it makes and nothing is accomplished with spontaneity. Its work will be of poor quality or it may never be finished at all.
When the mind is tethered to a center, naturally it is not free. It can move only within the limits of that center. If one is isolated, he is dead; he is paralyzed within the fortress of his own ideas.
When you are completely aware, there is no space for a conception, a scheme, "the opponent and I;" there is complete abandonment.
When there is no obstruction, the ... man's movements ate like flashes of lightning or like the mirror reflecting images.
When insubstantiality and substantiality ate not set and defined, when there is no track to change what is, one has mastered the formless form. When there is clinging to form, when there is attachment of the mind, it is not the true path. When technique comes out of itself, that is the way.
Jeet kune do is the art not founded on techniques or doctrine. It is just as you are. When there is no center and no circumference, then there is truth. When you freely express, you are the total style. "
Bruce Lee.
Some of my favourite Bruce Lee quotes:
"Leave sagehood behind and enter once more into ordinary humanity. After coming to understand the other side, come back and live on this side. After the cultivation of no-cultivation, one's thoughts continue to be detached from phenomenal things and one still remains amid the phenomenal, yet devoid of the phenomenal.
Both the man and his surroundings are eliminated. Then, neither the man nor his surroundings ate eliminated. Walk on!
One can never be the master of his technical knowledge unless all his psychic hindrances are removed and he can keep his mind in a state of emptiness (fluidity), even purged of whatever technique he has obtained.
With all the training thrown to the wind, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, anybody knows where, the art of jeet kune do attains its perfection.
The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning. Learning techniques corresponds to an intellectual apprehension of the philosophies in Zen, and in both Zen and ....., an intellectual proficiency does not cover the whole ground of the discipline. Both require the attainment of ultimate reality, which is the emptiness or the absolute. The latter transcends all modes of relativity.
In jeet kune do, all technique is to be forgotten and the unconscious is to be left alone to handle the situation. The technique will assert its wonders automatically or spontaneously. To float in totality, to have no technique, is to have all technique. The knowledge and skill you have achieved ate meant to be '"forgotten" so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. Learning is important but do not become its slave. Above all, do not harbor anything external and superfluous -- the mind is primary. Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
'To desire" is an attachment. "'To desire not to desire" is also an attachment. To be unattached then, means to be free at once from both statements, positive and negative. This is to be simultaneously both "yes" and "no," which is intellectually absurd. However, not so in Zen.
Nirvana is to be consciously unconscious or to be unconsciously conscious. That is its secret. The act is so direct and immediate that intellectualization finds no room to insert itself and cut the act to pieces.
The spirit is no doubt the controlling agent of our existence. This invisible seat controls every movement in whatever external situation arises. It is thus, to be extremely mobile, never "stopping" in any place at any moment. Preserve this state of spiritual freedom and non-attachment as soon as you assume the fighting stance. Be "master of the house."
It is the ego that stands rigidly against influences from the outside, and it is this "ego rigidity" that makes it impossible for us to accept everything that confronts us.
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
Seek not the cultivated innocence of a clever mind that wants to be innocent, but have rather that state of innocence where there is no denial or acceptance and the mind just sees what its.
All goals apart from the means are illusions. Becoming is a denial of being. By an error repeated throughout the ages, truth, becoming a law or a faith, places obstacles in the way of knowledge. Method, which is in its very substance ignorance, encloses truth within a vicious circle. We should break such a circle, not by seeking knowledge, but by discovering the cause of ignorance.
Recollection and anticipation are fine qualities of consciousness that distinguish the human mind from that of the lower animals. But, when actions are directly related to the problem of life and death, these properties must be relinquished for the sake of fluidity of thought and lightning rapidity of action.
Action is our relationship to everything. Action is not a matter of right and wrong. It is only when action is partial that there is a right and a wrong.
Don't let your attention be attested! Transcend dualistic comprehension of a situation.
Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe the techniques as though not observing. Utilize the art as a means to advance in the study of the Way.
A concentrated mind is not an attentive mind, but a mind that is in the state of aware- ness can concentrate. Awareness is never exclusive; it includes everything.
Not being tense but ready, not thinking yet not dreaming, not being set but flexible - it is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
The jeet kune do man, should be on the alert to meet the interchangeability of opposites. As soon as his mind "stops" with either of them, it loses its own fluidity. He should keep his mind always in the state of emptiness so that his freedom in action will never be obstructed.
The abiding stage is the point where the mind hesitates to abide. It attaches itself to an object and stops the flow.
The deluded mind is the mind effectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
The wheel revolves when it is not too tightly attached to the axle. When the mind is tied up, it feels inhibited in every move it makes and nothing is accomplished with spontaneity. Its work will be of poor quality or it may never be finished at all.
When the mind is tethered to a center, naturally it is not free. It can move only within the limits of that center. If one is isolated, he is dead; he is paralyzed within the fortress of his own ideas.
When you are completely aware, there is no space for a conception, a scheme, "the opponent and I;" there is complete abandonment.
When there is no obstruction, the ... man's movements ate like flashes of lightning or like the mirror reflecting images.
When insubstantiality and substantiality ate not set and defined, when there is no track to change what is, one has mastered the formless form. When there is clinging to form, when there is attachment of the mind, it is not the true path. When technique comes out of itself, that is the way.
Jeet kune do is the art not founded on techniques or doctrine. It is just as you are. When there is no center and no circumference, then there is truth. When you freely express, you are the total style. "
Bruce Lee.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
-- Rich Cook
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
-- Charles de Montesquieu
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
-- Joan Didion
The apostrophe in "chicken's" is uneccessary. If you put it there, get rid of it. If Bank Robber did, add [sic] after it.
-- Rich Cook
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
-- Charles de Montesquieu
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
-- Joan Didion
The apostrophe in "chicken's" is uneccessary. If you put it there, get rid of it. If Bank Robber did, add [sic] after it.
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