Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.
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Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
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Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.
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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
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I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
