quotes about Gusto

“My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

“Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.”

Source : Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

“I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.”

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

“I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs, if you hate late nights. The snowy cold, the worst conditions you can get, put yourself in those and really make it inconvenient and you start to get a genuine expectation of winning for the price you have to pay.”

“No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.”

“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”

“Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.”

“Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.”

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”

“Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.”