Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

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• Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.

  

  Tamera Mowry
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• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
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• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
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• I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
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• From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

  

  Hari Kunzru
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• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
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• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
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• I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
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• I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

  

  Olivia Williams
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• The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
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• Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
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• Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no international trade, but it will be nothing like the conveyer belt from China to Wal-Mart that we've known the last few decades. And the prospects for conflict are very, very high.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
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• When people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
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• In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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• Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

  

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