Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
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Everyone's relationships are very different, and very specific. I guess that's why there are people that like to watch this show Suits. It's not all the same.
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I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.
