Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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The fabric of my life is under my skin; but it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when I read material. I have an incredible relationship with my mom, so I'm fascinated by mothers who do not have that. But I've never done anything that resembled my life. People always jump to that conclusion, and I wish life were that simple, but it's not.
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The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And love has to do with humor, doesn't it? For you cannot love someone unless you put up with him, can you? And you cannot put up with someone constantly unless you can laugh at him. Isn't that true? And certainly we are rediculous little animals wallowing in the fudge bowl, and God must love us all the more because we appeal to his humor.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.
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The more you love a person, you more you should respect that person. Encourage her to be the best she can be, and you'll both be happier.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
