Joan Halifax Quotes
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?Joan Halifax
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
Barbara Demick -
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
Naomie Harris -
I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
Dan Maffei -
I really like just super dry comedy.
Zach Braff -
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
Olivia Wilde -
I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
J. J. Watt
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
Lance Ito -
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan -
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
Galen Rowell -
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Randy Pausch -
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird -
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
Ursula Burns
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles -
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
Tariq Ali -
I like to support local record stores.
Parker Posey -
Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
Adam Grant -
At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
Patrick Lencioni -
Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
Dan Lipinski
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
Nan Goldin -
Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.
Jeff Daniels -
It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
Barack Obama -
In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.
Donald Johanson -
I never turned a part down when they offered me money.
Peter Falk -
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
Joan Halifax