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Bikram Choudhury [1946-0] Indian

Rank: 101
Teacher

Bikram Choudhury is an Indian yoga teacher and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga performed in a series of 26 hatha yoga postures done in a hot environment of 40 °C.

Car, Attitude, Computers, Positive, Strength, Success, Truth

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You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.		101
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.	Success	102
Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.		103
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.	Truth	104
Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.	Attitude, Positive	105
You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.		106
I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.	Strength	107
You treat an idiot like an idiot.		108
You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.	Car	109
If you can, you must.		110
Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance.		111
Any kind of problem you have in your life, you come to Bikram. Your life becomes the best in the world.		112
The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.		113
If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.		114
I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.	Car	115
Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.		116
My system works, as long as people let me do my job my way. It is not just the sequence, it is how you do it: the timing, the mirrors, the temperature, the carpet. But if people only do it 99% right, it is 100% wrong. When someone tries to mess with it, the people won't get the yoga benefits.		117
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.		118
If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.		119
There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.		120
Yoga only works one way.		121
I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.		122
Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.		123
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.		124
Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.		125
I always forgave my students, like Jesus.		126
Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.		201
So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It's like you're practicing medicine, but you're not a doctor.		202
One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.		203
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!	Computers	204
I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.		205
I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.		206
It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.		207
When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.		208
I don't chase money, money chase me!		209
Movie stars, rich people - oh, they have so many beautiful cars!		210
In India, nobody sues anybody.		211
When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.		212
I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.		213
Yoga in America is a joke.		214
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.		215
Worry makes you sick. Worry less, live as long as you like.		216
America's biggest problem is too much freedom.		217
I'm a yogi, not a businessman.		218
I started with nothing. Zero.		219
Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.		220
Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.		221
Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.		222
For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.		223
I always teach celebrities, all my life.		224
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.		225
If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.		226
Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?		301
In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.		302
American men are like women.		303
Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition.		304
When President Ronald Reagan asked me a stupid question once, I called him an idiot in public! I thought I was going to be arrested, but he laughed and appreciated me.		305
Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.		306
My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.		307
I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.		308

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