Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
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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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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?
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People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.
