Samuel Alexander Quotes

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

Samuel Alexander

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• I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Why
  • Remember

• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Thoughts
  • Walk

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • Never
  • Thoughts

• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Think
  • House

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Practice
  • Old

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • World
  • Day

• I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

  

  Aubrey McClendon
  • Time
  • American

• With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

  

  Anthony Mackie
  • Done
  • Law

• The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • Soul
  • Single

• When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can call it.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • World
  • American
  • Alone

• When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Memories