Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotes
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.Benjamin Lee Whorf
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
Anton Zaslavski -
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
Saint Ambrose -
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
Queen Latifah -
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
Natan Sharansky -
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
Valerie June -
Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
Uday Kotak -
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Walter Kohn -
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
Floyd Skloot -
I just sing. You have to use it.
Aaron Neville -
The point of the future is that anything can happen.
Viktor Orban
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
Bayard Taylor -
My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
Victoria Justice -
I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
Ian Rush -
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Ramakrishna -
You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
A. J. Liebling
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I always get asked for suggestions on what to get food-lover friends. While there are many gifts out there that a foodie would love, it's always good to do some research beforehand so you know you're getting a gift that will last.
Marcus Samuelsson -
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
Dave Eggers -
I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.
Luke Bryan -
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. Woodson -
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.
Benjamin Lee Whorf