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ambition belief transcendence
Richard Rorty My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
ambition ego vision
Werner Herzog Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.
ambition frustration men
Samuel Fuller Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.
ambition thinking people
Wangari Maathai There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.
ambition home limits
Wangari Maathai When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.
ambition men intelligent
W. H. Auden Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
ambition self flames
William Congreve Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
ambition important want
Tory Burch Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.
writing play important
Robert Creeley Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.
writing people trying
Richard Paul Evans Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
writing suffering littles
Richard Baxter A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer...
writing emotional rocks
Rex Reed Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
writing race justice
Rebecca West It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
writing fiction half
Rebecca West No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
writing thinking hands
Rebecca West I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
writing known knows
Rebecca West I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing loss world
Rebecca West It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
meditation mind moments
Richard Davidson In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.
meditation trying attention
William Martin We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.
meditation forgiving want
Richard Rohr every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
meditation december life-experience
Mike Love Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.
meditation soil pushing
Jon Kabat-Zinn Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.
meditation feelings way
Jon Kabat-Zinn Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
meditation special needs
Jon Kabat-Zinn Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.
meditation
Joko Beck Meditation is not about doing something
meditation feelings mind
Nhat Hanh Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.