Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

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• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Live
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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
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• The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
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• The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

  

  Fidel Castro
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  • China

• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
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• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Stress
  • Meditation

• An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
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  • Air

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

  Daniel Boone
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• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
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• I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• And so the powerful appeals of Enoch, his loud calls to repentance and threatenings of judgment to come, since they were slighted by the world, must have mightily hardened the hearts of men, and caused the Spirit of God to cease striving with them. Very probably many were at first impressed and alarmed: but after a while, when they saw day following day without any sign of the predicted vengeance, they lost their fear: they went back to their favourite sins, as the dog to his vomit: they could no longer be roused as before: they began to be scoffers, and mocked at the most solemn warnings: the demon, who had been for a brief space expelled, returned with seven others more wicked than himself: so that their last state was worse than the first.

  

  G. H. Pember
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• Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
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• I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Company
  • Strategy
  • Experiments

• If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
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