Schachter Quotes

#1. Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#2. Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#3. But I can't leave, not yet. I'll stay with her until sunrise. If I brace my feet, I won't slide. I can rest my cheek on the roof tile and still see her. Pacing. Pulling her hair.
"I'll fix you," I tell her. "I promise."
Even though I don't know how.
It's better than good-bye.

Pam Bachorz

#4. Theodicy, the philosophers call it: the problem of God's justice. The

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#5. Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Moliere

#6. The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#7. We did a variant of the intern thing. We hired people as consultants for a specific thing and then if they were good, offered them a job.

Joshua Schachter

#8. Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

Adam Brody

#9. I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

Ann Jillian

#10. elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#11. No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#12. Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

Kathryn Davis

#13. Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Thornton Wilder

#14. Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#15. He treated her like a china doll that needed to sit on a high shelf and be admired but never handled. Marietta didn't want to be admired from a distance. She wanted to be touched. Held. Embraced. By him.

Karen Witemeyer

#16. Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#17. The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

Aaron Tippin

#18. Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

Joshua Schachter

#19. Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Sherwood Boehlert

#20. God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#21. I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later.

Philip Treacy

#22. She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss ... '

Isaac Babel

#23. You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.

Joshua Schachter

#24. Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

Joshua Schachter

#25. Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.

Rumi

#26. When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#27. Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#28. Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.

Joshua Schachter

#29. If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

Joshua Schachter

#30. Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#31. Don't regard yourselves as the final recipients of [...] music [...]. Instead, offer your ears and heart to heaven. Let your experience of [...] music go up to God.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi