"Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you knock them on the head to see if they're ready sounds like nothing's going on."

-- Peter Levitt

#Long Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Juicy Quotes

“'Scissorman' is terrifying. The studio at the time didn't want Scissorman because they were afraid that he'd look silly to which my response was, 'Well, then why did buy this because that's what the game is.' But I lost that battle.”
“Weâ€™re trying to be faithful but weâ€™re cheating, cheating, cheating”
“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the bad girl or the good girl or the bad mother or the good mother, the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children or the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies, all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”
“The race car is harder to drive. If there was an in-car camera that could have watched me saw on that wheel for 500 laps, there wasn't one time I could relax.”
“Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.”
“There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.”
“I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.”

Source : Song: Walk By Faith, Album: Stay, 2002
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Jul 22, 2011

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