“For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.”
Carlos Castaneda
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ... SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota... FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE I like to find old things and I picked up that arrowhead in tears, that broken point ... LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more... FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ... FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa... HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re... HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin... HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act. HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods. HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ... HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today. HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties. HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university. HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have... HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w... HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined. HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required. HE CHANGCHUI Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They say that if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one love... KAHLIL GIBRAN He loves people, ... and especially people in need. GARY HAMMOND Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac... JOHANN VON GOETHE People mess up all the time. Michael Vick, he made some mistakes. He surrounded himself around the w... MICHAEL OHER He has a lot going for him. He knows the game; that's the first thing. And I think he knows people, ... MIKE DITKA There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. ELBERT HUBBARD Conversion turns the bias of the WILL both as to means and end. The intentions of the will are alter... JOSEPH ALLEINE Everyone loves himself, but loving others is the most daunting task. The main reason for any person ... ANUJ SOMANY Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which... ÉMILE DURKHEIM In my experience, he was excellent with children, ... He didn't talk down to us. He may have brought... DOUGLAS GRESHAM He struggled to get ahold of himself. This had to stop! He couldn't flip out every time he thought a... SUZANNE COLLINS A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot co... JAMES ALLEN He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they giv... SUZANNE COLLINS They found the manager of that building right underneath that blanket. His name was Carlos Garcia. H... GARY MICHIELS He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to des... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is sca... BETTY CARTER He that plants trees loves others besides himself. ENGLISH PROVERB He that plants trees loves others beside himself. DR. THOMAS FULLER They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had ple... HERODOTUS The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distingui... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s... PAUL HOFFMAN And then I can feel what he feels. He’s waited such a long time for this moment. He loves how I fe... CYNTHIA HAND [•] Saddam Hussein cannot use chemical or biological weapons himself. He has to use his chain of c... DONALD RUMSFELD God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God... POPE FRANCIS His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violenc... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He ... TED ALLEN What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He loves you, do you see that? He loves you and he hates himself and he'll never, ever be good enoug... AMY EWING “Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning ... CARLOS CASTANEDA The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himsel... WILLIAM GODWIN When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is love... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH He's a really nice guy, but he has a switch he turns on when he gets on the court, and then he becom... MAULI'A LABARRE Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thoug... ANDREW GREELEY This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is... BETTY CARTER He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. HENRI MATISSE “An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, ... CARLOS CASTANEDA He walked around in white robes. He called himself a prophet. ... Wanda, who was with him, they woul... TOM SMART He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he ... AUDREY NIFFENEGGER He who plants trees loves others beside himself ENGLISH PROVERB The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that re... DAVID LLOYD GEORGE A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does DAN MILLMAN The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain t... NEIL GAIMAN All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bu... MICHAEL CONNELLY Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but f... JAMES BURTSCHAELL He wouldn’t be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the o... THOMM QUACKENBUSH The constant clamor of the booths and barkers served as an exhausting reminder that he had to choose... DEXTER PALMER What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his ... FOSTER FRIESS We've been getting sick for 25 years around here. But to see him and how much he loves the team and ... EDDIE EINHORN Here he is not able to defend himself at all, so it is unfair for people to go around making stateme... EDMUND BON “The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior lowers his head to n... CARLOS CASTANEDA People like to be around him. He's a great kid, and he readily accepts the coaching. DANNY STRUCK Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey -- for vengeance. If o... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Elijah, as always, is being unusually kind. While he himself is not lonely, he doesn’t mind talkin... DAVID LEVITHAN Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? / And there was much murmuring among t... BIBLE He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; he considered most people fit candidates for... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite pla... JANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING He loves that kind of thing. He does those things to get people laughing and make people feel good. GARRETT TEMPLE This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants. CLIFFORD COHEN He just gave of himself and was very active in borough politics. Anybody who came in touch with him.... HAL HONIG He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounde... AKIVA BEN JOSEPH He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious... CASSANDRA CLARE It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand h... F. H. BRADLEY A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresisti... LEO TOLSTOY The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of wh... A. W. TOZER If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses... MARTIN LUTHER He's always been a talkative guy. He loves people to hear him, that's for sure. KYLE DAQUANNA He felt Bond should be hard and fatalistic, and make no attempt to endear himself to the audience, w... JAMES BOND He and I go to the same church, so I've seen him a couple of times there. He is an amazing guy. Peop... KATIE FEENSTRA People challenged him and he stepped up to the challenge. He solidified himself as one of the best c... CODY VANDERFORD He has stepped up for us all year. For a kid that played sparingly last year to step in and take car... DAVE MACARTHUR The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't ... GARTH RISK HALLBERG What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People hated him for leaving the Beatles or for falling in love with Yoko ... they wanted him to be ... DON SCARDINO People hated him for leaving the Beatles or for falling in love with Yoko ... they wanted him to be ... DON SCARDINO A president should be approachable; understanding of people's problems and needs; he should be fair ... ANTHONY T. HINCKS
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CARLOS CASTANEDA All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front ... CARLOS CASTANEDA We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. CARLOS CASTANEDA “The world is incomprehensible. We won’t ever understand it; we won’t ever unravel its secrets... CARLOS CASTANEDA The world is a mystery. This, what you’re looking at, is not all there is to it. There is much mor... CARLOS CASTANEDA “A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may h... CARLOS CASTANEDA “An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, ... CARLOS CASTANEDA “To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle tha... CARLOS CASTANEDA Can we perceive those inorganic beings, don Juan?" I asked. "We certainly can," he replied. "Sorcere... 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I think the knee is going to be fine. That's goo... ALEX CASTANEDA He's a great kid and a hard worker. He took the right classes, and really that's what you want all y... ALEX CASTANEDA He drove around this big, old white car he called 'The Ghost. ALEX CASTANEDA In junior high I just started playing the guitar. I just like music. It's in my family. CLINT CASTANEDA I get excited for most of my matches, but at state I kind of expected to win. I was kind of not happ... CLINT CASTANEDA As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser. WENDY CARLOS I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca... WENDY CARLOS Composition has almost always been solitary. WENDY CARLOS A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. WENDY CARLOS There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same. CARLOS SANTANA U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the whi... CARLOS FUENTES Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective. CARLOS WALLACE We continue to be bullish on China. CARLOS GHOSN First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou... CARLOS SLIM It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you ar... CARLOS SLIM My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a co... CARLOS SLIM We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the ... CARLOS SLIM You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment.... CARLOS SLIM In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and... CARLOS SLIM If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more... CARLOS SLIM We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility. CARLOS SLIM Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments. CARLOS SLIM I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about the... CARLOS SLIM There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers. CARLOS SLIM When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments. CARLOS SLIM The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architect... CARLOS SLIM If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working. CARLOS SLIM How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of al... CARLOS SLIM Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sp... CARLOS SLIM I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping other... CARLOS SLIM At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I c... CARLOS SLIM You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are ... CARLOS SLIM You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technolog... CARLOS SLIM You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired. CARLOS SLIM It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give bette... CARLOS SLIM The biggest things in life are not materials. CARLOS SLIM The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting t... CARLOS SANTANA You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, beca... CARLOS SANTANA First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to... CARLOS SANTANA Stay in your heart. CARLOS SANTANA I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring... CARLOS SANTANA I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. CARLOS SANTANA The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. CARLOS SANTANA I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated ... CARLOS SANTANA My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, la... CARLOS SANTANA There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save. CARLOS SANTANA When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and ... CARLOS SANTANA My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a ... CARLOS SANTANA Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you. CARLOS SANTANA The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an... CARLOS SANTANA Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now... CARLOS SANTANA I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, ... CARLOS SANTANA Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smili... CARLOS SANTANA Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life. CARLOS SANTANA There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with ... CARLOS SANTANA I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most day... CARLOS PONCE Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi... CARLOS PONCE I think my favorite thing is songwriting. CARLOS PONCE I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt. CARLOS PONCE I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We'... CARLOS PONCE I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times. CARLOS PONCE I have reached a limit in my work. CARLOS MESA I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia'... CARLOS MESA My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed... CARLOS MESA I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities. CARLOS MESA I want Bolivians to support their president. CARLOS MESA We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel commi... CARLOS MESA Bolivia is not yet a country of equals. CARLOS MESA The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizi... CARLOS MESA Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. CARLOS MESA There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their suc... CARLOS GHOSN Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of product... CARLOS GHOSN In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is no... CARLOS GHOSN I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next ... CARLOS GHOSN Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a prof... CARLOS GHOSN More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going glo... CARLOS GHOSN Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do. CARLOS GHOSN Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional. CARLOS GHOSN When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want... CARLOS GHOSN I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to ... CARLOS GHOSN Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different... CARLOS GHOSN Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much m... CARLOS GHOSN You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opin... CARLOS GHOSN If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you... CARLOS GHOSN Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation. CARLOS GHOSN The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. CARLOS GHOSN I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv... CARLOS GHOSN Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvem... CARLOS GHOSN You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. CARLOS GHOSN My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. CARLOS FUENTES I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. CARLOS FUENTES One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on... CARLOS FUENTES I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the write... CARLOS FUENTES Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. CARLOS FUENTES Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al... CARLOS FUENTES I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? CARLOS FUENTES I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t... CARLOS FUENTES I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty... CARLOS FUENTES The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na... CARLOS FUENTES What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ... CARLOS FUENTES You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea... CARLOS FUENTES I love having critics for breakfast. CARLOS FUENTES The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ... CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who... CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000... CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo... CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and... CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what... CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac... CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. CARLOS FUENTES In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps ba... CARLOS ALVAREZ Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989. CARLOS ALVAREZ In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b... CARLOS ALVAREZ If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ... CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I started doing stand-up in college. CARLOS ALAZRAQUI Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted. CARLOS ALAZRAQUI