Study Quotes - Page 24

• The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Buddhism, Meditation

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• A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Humility, Buddhism

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• If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Problem, Harmony

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• In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, East, Mixtures

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• Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

  Criss Jami

  Psychology, Trying, Language

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

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• I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

  Melanie Lynskey

  Drama, Acting, Modern

  "‘Hello I Must Be Going’ Star Melanie Lynskey On Her Bout With Depression After ‘Heavenly Creatures’ and Proving Naysayers Wrong" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 05, 2012.

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• I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Mother, Father, Medicine

  Rita Levi-Montalcini (1988). “In praise of imperfection: my life and work”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Military, Interesting, Important

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• I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

  Brit Marling

  Ideas, Parent, Want

  "Brit Marling Exclusive Interview Another Earth". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

  Joe Manganiello

  Werewolf, Tendencies, Moved

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• Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

  Nate Mendel

  Understanding, Mind, Hiv

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.

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• I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.

  Ryan McPartlin

  School, College, Illinois

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

  Anthony Mackie

  Thinking, People, Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

  College, Years, Architecture

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• I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Fighting, Doe, Professors

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• I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.

  Cory Monteith

  People, Focus, Trying

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Father, Book

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  N. T. Wright

  Writing, Biblical, Discipline

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I didn't study acting.

  Ray Walston

  Acting

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• I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Chance, Architecture

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• The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

  Capers Jones

  Quality, Use, Lines

  Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall

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• You should study Pokemon to get stronger.

  Kazushi Sakuraba

  Stronger, Pokemon, Should

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• Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional and mainstream forms of education.

  James Morcan

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

  Avicenna

  Essentials, Causes, Accidents

  "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.

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