Barry Magid Quotes

#1. It was called Ending the Pursuit of Happiness, and its author, a man named Barry Magid, argued that the idea of using meditation to make your life 'better' or 'happier', in any conventional sense, was a misunderstanding.

Oliver Burkeman

#2. I sit here and tell everyone else they are beautiful just the way they are flaws and all. Then I turn to the mirror and pick myself apart. Huh I guess everyone is a hypocrite in one way or another.

Kerri E. Lorenz

#3. To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

Matthew Lillard

#4. The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

Joel Greenblatt

#5. I'm not brave. I'm just incredibly observant." Steve has discovered that the more you observe, the more data you collect, the more patterns you see, and the more boldly you can act. As Steve would say, "This is a big idea!"3

Tina Seelig

#6. Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#7. I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.

Nancy Spero

#8. In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.

Martha Cooley

#9. If your vision dies with you, you failed.

Myles Munroe

#10. If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?

Jimmy Knepper

#12. Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The Bible alone is the most dangerous thing I can think of.

Robert D. McFadden

#14. I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

Frank Gehry

#15. Sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

Tammara Webber

#16. The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.

Ralph Lauren