Top 20 Basic Alan Quotes
#1. The problem is to appreciate differences in the basic premises of thought and in the very methods of thinking, and these are so often overlooked that our interpretations of Chinese philosophy are apt to be a projection of characteristically Western ideas into Chinese terminology.
Alan W. Watts
#2. Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.
Alan Watts
#3. It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
Kevin Spacey
#4. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Alan Watts
#5. I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.
Alan Jackson
#6. Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And
Geraldine Brooks
#7. Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.
Pete Seeger
#8. I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
Benjamin Carson
#9. I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.
Fred Alan Wolf
#10. The most basic Buddhist stance: sober examination of what lies before you, leaving aside all assumptions.
Alan W. Watts
#11. It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.
Alan Tower Waterman
#12. Time goes by at the speed of life
Slower than a slow dance
on a hot summer night
Faster than the skin breaks
on the edge of a knife
And we just go on at the speed of life
Jude Cole
#13. As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.
Alan Watts
#14. The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events
that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies
and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.
Alan Watts
#15. You don't understand the basic assumptions of your own culture if your own culture is the only culture you know.
Alan W. Watts
#17. I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
Bill Gates
#18. But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.
Alan Thein Durning
#19. Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.
Alan Huffman
#20. I've recently come to the conclusion that the nursery rhyme riddle is the most basic form of the detective story. It's a mystery stripped of all but the essential facts. Take this one, for instance: As
Alan Bradley
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