Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
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No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.
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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
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In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
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If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
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The cop climbed out of his car exactly four minutes before he got shot. He moved like he knew his fate in advance.
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Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they're mega-stars.' I'm a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they've done instead of just getting an autograph.
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So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?
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It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
