Smokey Yunick Quotes

#1. If your gonna play with rattlesnakes, you better know what rattlesnakes do.

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#2. When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause

Gautama Buddha

#3. Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of
disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and
still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Susanna Kaysen

#4. You don't race cars, you race the rule book

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#5. U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

John Bruton

#6. There are two types of racers- cheaters and losers.

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#7. As far as cheating goes, they'll never stop it. The only way it can be done successfully, only one person can know about it.

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#8. Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.

Laura Dave

#11. but man, if you're not honest with yourself you're a lost soul swimming with the 15 foot crocodiles.

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#12. Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

Joseph Campbell

#13. My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

Brian Greene