Elizabeth Thornton Quotes
The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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It was the elision of the weaker element - the survival of the fittest; and some, indeed very many, mothers must lose their sons that way.
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Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.
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I learn something new every day about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.
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The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
