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Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. -- Mitch Kapor
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations. -- Sanjay Kumar
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus. -- Mitch Kapor
I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do. -- Mitch Kapor
It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition. -- Kimi Raikkonen
I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity. -- Kimi Raikkonen
I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me. -- Heikki Kovalainen
The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy. -- Nelson Piquet
Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. -- James Fallows
I've never wanted to drive a car fast for the sake of it. I mean, I like nice cars. I've got the Bentley, I've had a Lotus, I've had a Rolls-Royce and a few Jaguars, including an E-type. But I'm not somebody for driving tremendously fast. -- Terry Wogan
The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. -- Mitch Kapor
Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough? -- Murray Walker
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave. -- Edmund White
When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus. -- Graham Hill
In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are. -- Shunryu Suzuki
There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental. -- Gold Panda
I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be. -- Christina Aguilera
In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve. -- Rajneesh
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it. -- Neil Peart
Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box. -- Ry?nosuke Akutagawa
I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. Flying Lotus is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash. -- Anton Newcombe
The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing. -- Nita Ambani
Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position. -- Alan Moore
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself. -- Christy Turlington
I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed. -- Martin Yan
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! -- Sai Baba
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. -- Yukio Mishima
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas. -- Hari Kunzru
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. -- Steve Jobs
I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around. -- John Astin
In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s. -- Jerry Yang
It's a mining town in lotus land. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. -- Khalil Gibran
Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted. -- Sylvia Plath
May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water. -- Gautama Buddha
Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. -- Amit Ray
Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals. -- Gautama Buddha
The #lotus comes from the #murkiest #water.. but #grows into the #purest thing. -- Nita Ambani
Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of. -- Rajneesh
Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand! -- Gautama Buddha
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. -- Gautama Buddha
May the honey-sweet flute music that flows from Lord Mukunda's lotus mouth fill me with bliss. -- Rupa Goswami
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. -- Anita Diament
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. -- Diane Ackerman
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. -- Leopold Kronecker
Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life -- Dalai Lama
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. -- Takashi Murakami
Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky. -- Janet Fitch
Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not. -- George Harrison
The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night. -- Heinrich Heine
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. -- Herman Melville
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering. -- Rajneesh
The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. -- Thiruvalluvar
O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns. -- Manmohan Acharya
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams. -- Ouida
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire. -- Huang E
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. -- Nhat Hanh
The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration. -- Swami Vivekananda
God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. -- Sathya Sai Baba
At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha. -- Hakuin Ekaku
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake. -- Rabindranath Tagore
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus. -- Gautama Buddha
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf. -- Gautama Buddha
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed. -- Gautama Buddha
A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing. -- Anne Waldman
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. -- Edward Abbey
Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. -- Suzy Kassem

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