Introduction Quotes · Page 3

Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

— Frederick Lenz

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

— Frederick Lenz

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

— Percy Cerutty

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

— Samuel Johnson

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

— Frederick Lenz

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

— Italo Calvino

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

— Frederick Lenz

I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day…

— Zach Condon

High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program…

— Ruth Simmons

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state…

— Frederick Lenz

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in…

— Harry Shearer

Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different…

— Frederick Lenz

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of…

— Damien Hirst

There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step…

— Frederick Lenz

My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and…

— Clive Davis

“Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are the currency that we share…

— Neil Gaiman

I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in…

— Cornelia Parker

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of…

— Jacques Derrida

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere...…

— Peter Drucker

Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing,…

— Jill Talbot

“It is I who drink lonely Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns, It is I who laugh, it is…

— Kamala Das

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind…

— Orson Scott Card

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

— Henry Sweet

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

— Kiki Dee

“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

— Frederick Lenz

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

— Orison Swett Marden

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

— Adam Weishaupt

My first European game was a qualifying match against a team from Luxembourg. That was my introduction.

— Martin O'Neill

A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

— Vikas Khanna

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

— Frederick Lenz

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

— Ralph Metzner

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

— Andy Hertzfeld

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

— Henry David Thoreau

Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

— Omar Bongo

“But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on…

— Thomas Pynchon

I went to my first APRA awards when I was, like, 13. My first introduction to the music industry was going to…

— Ruel