Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
