Peeling Potatoes Quotes

#1. Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan W. Watts

#2. This is your way of telling me I should be doing something far more worthwhile than peeling your potatoes.

Jojo Moyes

#3. You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Les Brown

#4. Being productive. Ugh. It's such a human concept. It implies you have limited time (LOL) and have to work hard to make something happen (double LOL).

Rick Riordan

#5. This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Kenneth L. Pike

#6. The dream state just before wakening when it seems perfectly logical for the goldfish not to like peeling its own potatoes on the bus.

Kate Griffin

#7. I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

Kevin Costner

#8. God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do.

Kristiane Backer

#9. How, exactly, did I kill him? He died on the golf course." One minute he'd been practicing his swing, and in the next - phzzt - a freak lightning bolt had hit him right in the nine iron. His shoes were still smoking when she reached him.

Cheryl Sterling

#10. As soon as I saw the three-bin stainless steel pot sink, exactly like ours, I felt instantly at home and fell into peeling potatoes and scraping plates for the dishwasher like it was my own skin. And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#11. Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?

James K. Morrow