Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
Quotes to Explore
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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'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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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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Our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia.
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The deep, seen with depth, is surface.
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It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
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It's rare to get a part in a show that's greenlit, let alone two shows that have been greenlit.
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I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.
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When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.
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It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
