Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.Jon Kabat-Zinn
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles -
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
W. H. Davies -
The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
Kapil Sibal -
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel -
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp -
In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
Abbie Cornish -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
Vic Snyder
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
Katee Sackhoff -
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson -
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
Imogen Heap -
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman -
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo -
My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
Dan Stevens
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Imelda Staunton -
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese -
Why must everybody like you?
Arthur Miller -
Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.
Kaskade -
The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.
Jon Kabat-Zinn