Dalai Lama Quotes

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution; things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

I think the great thing about acting is that it's not all the same. You're constantly challenged and constantly pushed to your limit. It's nice to see how your body can adapt to these things.

There are two options: adapt or die.

Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.