#bud

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money! ↗

— John Dillinger

#farmers #firemen #i #just #like

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #love #psychology #art

But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him. ↗

— Donna Dixon

#another woman #auditioned #because #believe #buddy

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#budget #costumes #done #exactly #form

The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we are aware of millions of things around us - these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road - aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and calls consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world." -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#buddhism #philosophy #psychology #art

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#all-time #budget #budgets #defense #federal

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#big #budget #criticism #efficiency #film

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be. ↗

— Judd Gregg

#act #afford #budgetary #choices #get

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#buddy #dog #every #her #i

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#ego #psychology #tibet #wisdom #death