Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Warren Buffett

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

Wayne Dyer

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

W. H. Auden

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

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.

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.

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.

Saint Francis de Sales

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

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.

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.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

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.

Joko Beck

Meditation is not about doing something

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Sandra Cisneros

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Ruggiero Ricci

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Walter Matthau

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Chan Gailey

I'm just listening to everything that's going on, evaluating everything that's going on, trying to see where it's headed, ... I'm not worried. I'm not sitting there worried or scared at all.

G. H. Hardy

I had this in my mind. I think about it before the game, every game. I see myself doing it before it happens. From the hotels. I'll be on the bus, just daydreaming, listening to music, looking out the window, and I see myself doing everything, and I just come out here and try to do it.