Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
-
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
-
In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
-
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
-
I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
-
Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
-
I love women more than anything.
-
I really don't believe in magic.
-
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
-
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
-
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
-
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
-
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
-
There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
-
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
-
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
-
Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
-
You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
-
My job is to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If they're not shining you get to ask this question: "Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?"
-
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
-
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
-
I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.
-
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
