Ten Quotes

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

On a scale of one to ten, how punk am I? Apple. I don't use your scale.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

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

In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

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

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

There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind.

The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.

Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.

The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.

An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

Energy is connected to physical fitness. One of the reasons I stayed at the top so long is that I was tremendously fit. At 36, I was fitter than most opponents ten years younger.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.