"I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects"

-- Duncan Sheik

#Buddhist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Rhythm is everything in boxing...”
“The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]”
“Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.”
“Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.”
“I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.”
“Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.”
“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.”
“A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.”

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