Cultivation theory Quotes

“Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams”

“Friendship is something that is cultivated.”

“Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.”

“To blithely discard the spent kernels of something that has ended is to discard the very resources that have painstakingly been harvested from that ending from which a spirited new beginning will be cultivated.”

“Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.”

“Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.”

“By mental cultivation I mean a disciplined application of mind that involves deepening our familiarity with a chosen object or theme. Here I am thinking of the Sanskrit term bhavana, which connotes "cultivation," and whose Tibetan equivalent, gom, has the connotation of "familiarization." These two terms, often translated into English as meditation, refer to a whole range of mental practices and not just, as many suppose, to simple methods of relaxation. The original terms imply a process of cultivating familiarity with something, whether it is a habit, a way of seeing, or a way of being.”

“I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.”

“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”