Zentatsu Richard Baker quotes

“Years of expensive Zen training gone to waste”
-- Zentatsu Richard Baker

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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”

“Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.”

“Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training”

“I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.”

“All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.”

“People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.”

“I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.”

Source : Alek Wek (2007). “Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel”, Virago Press (UK)

“I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.”