Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

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• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

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• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  

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• I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
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• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

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• Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

  

  Paris Hilton
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• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
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• The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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• If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
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• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
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• My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

  

  Patrick White
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• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

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• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

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• You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.

  

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• Judo should be free as art and science from any external influences, political, national, racial, and financial or any other organized interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of Humanity.

  

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• Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

  

  Emma Goldman
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• Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

  

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• Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Art
  • Science
  • Feeling