David Korten Quotes
If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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I was born in the technology era.
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Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
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As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.
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Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world 'God' is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word 'world'.
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I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.
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Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
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Prayer is where the action is.
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If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
