William P. Young Quotes

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

William P. Young

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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

Sam Harris
- Thinking
- Long
- Day
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

M. J. Rose
- Thinking
- Fall
- Easy
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

Walter Salles
- Country
- Culture
- Identity
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Eckhart Tolle
- Up
- Thinking
- Reality
I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.

Patricia Millett
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Adam McKay
- Good
- Thinking
- Color