Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.
Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.
Beauty always takes place in the particular.
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.
Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.
Sometimes it takes courage to leave.
It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.
It takes people a while to trust you.
Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. ' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.
We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.