Wes Nisker Quotes
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.
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It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
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My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
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I'm not in charge of my life.
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A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
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By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.
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After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!
