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“There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or they will study with a Zen master who lives in the contemporary world.”

World Way Two Individual Study Masters Contemporary Primaries Introduction Monasteries Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.”

Years Two Ends Hard Lasts Certain Three Husband Starting Damn My Husband

Author:Ava Gardner

“True love has always been a two-way proposition.”

Way Love Two Propositions Two Ways

Author:Jon Jones

“...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has to distinguish two subvarieties. Type 2a physicists explain why they are not bothered. Their explanations tend either to miss the point entirely (like Born's to Einstein) or to contain physical assertions that can be shown to be false. Type 2b are not bothered and refuse to explain why.”

Two Science Born Missing Type Majority Refuse Contemporary Variety Explanation Bells Mechanic Physicist Bothered Assertion Quantum Mechanics Theorems Not Bothered

Author:David Mermin

“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.”

Thinking World Firsts Two Difficult Pieces Masters Add Insight Two Things Each Day This Day Buried

Author:Edwin Land

“My best advice for mental training is simply to create good habits, in order to build a sense of security and calm around you. Also, you could try to distance yourself emotionally from the whole situation. In my case, I just look at it objectively: We are two guys going inside a cage to work. That's it. Try to de-escalate the pressure. Take a couple of deep breaths. Don't hype things up. And stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.”

“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.”

World Two Political Politics Simple Atheism Ignorance Politician Conviction Prime Ingredients Villain Extremism Diagnosis Political Extremism

Author:John W. Gardner

“There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.”

People Kind Art Two Different Practice Groups Thousand Kicks Martial Arts Mma One Time Minimum

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”

May Two Government Political Politics Pay Millions Dollars Campaigns Presidential Million Dollars Metamorphosis Presidential Campaign

Author:John W. Gardner

“Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.”

Two Empowerment Mma Panic

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.”

Ifs Thinking Two Secret Progress Journey Mountain Approach Consistent Mma Climbing Camps Steady Folds Everest Climbing Mountain Sprint

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.”

Knows Needs Two Done Quitting Two Things Mma

Author:Forrest Griffin

“Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.”

Two Can Do Novelists Two Things Hats Rabbits Bunnies

Author:Peter S. Prescott

“There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.”

People Knows Two Shows Know How Gone Havens Type Performers Freak Panic

Author:El-P

“I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"”

Firsts Two Week Rocks Picks University Biology Toys First Love Bike Marine Two Weeks Biologist Vets Marine Biologist

Author:Ricky Gervais

“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.”

“It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.”

Two Ideas Sound Differences Space Representation Space Between

Author:David Salle

“When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.”

Thinking Years Kind Art Two Ends Used Skins Patterns I Realized Silly Two Years Pissed Off Mellow Opinionated

Author:Joe Bradley

“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.”

Years Two Matter Facts School Father Study Becoming High School Decided Two Years Priests Anticipation Matter Of Fact Seminary After High School

Author:Bob Gunton

“I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.”

Ifs Wells Two Done Stories Bigs Wanted Three Fans Projects Shots Violent Fabulous Well Done

Author:Morgan Freeman

“My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.”

Thinking Two Done Reality Jobs Actors Teacher Dad Bases My Dad Stations Supermarkets Two Jobs Petrol

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.”

Trying Two Matter Political Politics Fool Difficulty Dare Radical Two Things Patriotic

Author:James A. Garfield

“Because you have very limited time and you have to be very judicious and wise about how you spend it. But otherwise, I've always been - ever since I was a kid, I've always been coming up with ideas. So I'm able to come up with crazy ideas twice for two collections! It's fun.”

Two Ideas Kids Able Fun Wise Crazy Come Up Collections Limited Time Crazy Ideas

Author:Prabal Gurung

“We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.”

Ifs Way Want Believe Long Two States Term Security Solutions Democratic Israel Long Term

Author:Barack Obama

“Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a great story. Film, television, if you don't have that story, nothing else matters. You don't call anybody else or direct anybody. The same with a song. A great song can make the worst singer in the world a star.”

Ifs World Years Two Matter Stories Film Song Stars Worst Television Years Ago Direct Singers Two Things Thank God

Author:Quincy Jones

“I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.”

Two Real Mouths Ears Two Ears And One Mouth

Author:Quincy Jones

“The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time people will see it emphasising one more than the other. I think it is genuinely an amalgam between the two.”

People Thinking Has Beens Two Party Tradition Conservative Liberal Party

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.”

People Two Difficult Leader Struggle Balance Objectives Treated Ministers Prime Conventions Prime Minister Seekers Discouraging Asylums Smuggling Asylum Seekers

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.”

Two Life Is Arms Lucky Ten Fingers Legs Woods

Author:Nick Offerman

“You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.”

Two Government Remember Race Horse Vices Opposition Vice Versa

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.”

Years Two Done Jobs America Teach Teacher Math Accepted Two Years Math Teacher

Author:Chris Baio

“It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.”

People Persons Two Real Play Actors Tough Real Person

Author:Oren Moverman

“Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that's something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.”

Kind Two Different Used Sex Movement Involved Scene Reactions Uncomfortable Different Things Protected Exploits Nudity Visceral

Author:Lucy Lawless

“The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important, is to build endurance, toughness, and courage. They want to practice as realistically as possible so that when they go into a real fight, the transition isn't as jarring.”

Want Two Important Real Hard Reason Fighting Practice Technique Fighter Endurance Transition Toughness Sparring

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.”

People Way I Can Two Might Song Realizing Records Fine Structure Albums Backgrounds Dishes Workout Downloads Playlists

Author:Mikal Cronin

“If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.”

Ifs Way Children Two Different Economic Shapes Outcomes Different Place Later In Life

Author:Gwen Ifill

“They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.”

Thinking Looks Two Kids Actors Combination Idiot

Author:Scott Glenn

“For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.”

Way Want Two Beautiful Song Three Records Rocks Fighter Acoustics Foo Fighters

Author:Dave Grohl

“Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.”

Years Two Ends Sound Streets Band Albums Formulas Seeming Signatures Dead Ends Ramones

Author:Dave Grohl

“I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.”

Firsts Two Use Remember Fighting Band Males Bathroom Beef

Author:Taylor Momsen

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

Ifs Trying Years Firsts Two Jobs Parent Comedy College Work Out Pursue Noses Grindstone

Author:Ben Schwartz

“If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.”

Ifs Made Two Lasts Song Week Months Made It Two Weeks

Author:Danny Brown

“In the two years of preparing material for shows, I realized there are elements that are definitely going to work live, but might not be the most exciting thing to put on a record. And there's stuff that I really love but it falls flat live.”

Years Two Shows Might Fall Stuff Records Materials Elements Exciting I Realized Two Years Flats Preparing Going To Work Exciting Things

Author:Girl Talk

“When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.”

Writing Firsts Two Done Play Used Night Song Process Studios Piano Hobbies

Author:Kate Bush

“I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.”

World Made Two Eye Lying Turns Found Sides Vision Saws Focus Cutting Seeing Fronts Fields Originals Lays Centre Extensions Stopping

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.”

People Want Stills Two Facts Young Three Alive Magic Surface Flats

Author:Burton Silverman

“There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.”

Thinking Two Light Form Three Painting Surface Technique Handle Chosen Mediums

Author:Janice Tanton

“Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered?”

Kind Two Moments Three Views Cases Fields Color Photography Percent Dimensions Inclusion Lenses Ninety Elimination Eliminating Artifacts Shutters Before And After Three Dimensions

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious intuitive mind can be better grasped by the conscious rational mind. Aligning the two produces powerful results.”

Mind Two Light Results Powerful Power Produce Conscious Understood Rational Primaries Subconscious Intuitive

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth.”

Men Two Soul Eye Earth Money Fields Drink Kissing Gold Green His Eyes Silver Yield Blades Pebbles Green Fields

Book:The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

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