Top 28 Alan Chadwick Quotes

#1. If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Alan Chadwick

#2. The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

Alan Chadwick

#3. That our pains and longings are thousandfold and can be anesthetized in a thousand different ways is as commonplace a truth as that, in the end, they are all one, and can only be overcome in one way. What you most need is to feel ...

Dag Hammarskjold

#4. As he watched her sleep he had often been near-choked with joy;

Eleanor Catton

#5. What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Alan Chadwick

#6. It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

Alan Chadwick

#7. I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.

Henry Winkler

#8. A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Chadwick

#9. Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Alan Chadwick

#10. I don't think I'd be able to fit that thing in my mouth, she said conversationally, pursing her lips up thoughtfully as she stared between his legs.

R.L. Mathewson

#11. I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

Alan Chadwick

#12. Writing is like a noble gas, it expands to fit the container it is placed in. If you give me until Thursday, I'll procrastinate until it's due.

Guy Anthony De Marco

#13. We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Alan Chadwick

#14. There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

Alan Chadwick

#15. It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.

Deborah Cox

#16. Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

Alan Chadwick

#17. The big house did prove a Palace Beautiful, though it took some time for

Louisa May Alcott

#18. In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.

Dave Gibbons

#19. Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.

Page Smith

#20. The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Ruth Park

#21. Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Chadwick

#22. We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".

Mitch Hedberg

#23. Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

Alan Chadwick

#24. The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

Alan Chadwick

#25. We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

#26. How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of concentrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose?

J.D. Salinger

#27. Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking.

Marty Rubin

#28. Patience is not a virtue!

Alan Chadwick

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