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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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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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
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Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
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I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.
