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"The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money, focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!"
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Personal Development
"Don't invest everything in another man's calling."
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Personal Development
"Concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray, your purpose can put people in disarray."
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Personal Development
"The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others."
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Personal Development
"When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done."
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Personal Development
"Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded."
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Personal Development
"Fix your gazes on the invisible."
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Personal Development
"Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!"
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Personal Development
"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."
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Personal Development
"When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite with the time that you have."
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"You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."
History
"You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood."
Life
"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."
Identity
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
History
"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
Work
"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed."
Work
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
Focus
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
Lifestyle
"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."
Music
"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."
Film
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