A Quotes
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“As you are pitching your idea, the croc brain of the person sitting across from you isn't 'listening' and thinking, 'Hmm, is this a good deal or not?' Its reaction to your pitch basically goes like this: 'Since this is not an emergency, how can I ignore this or spend the least amount of time possible on it?'
This filtering system of the crocodile brain has a very short-sighted view of the world. Anything that is not a crisis it tries to mark as 'spam.'
If you got a chance to look at the croc brain's filtering instructions, it would look something like this:
1. If it's not dangerous, ignore it
2. If it's not new and exciting, ignore it.
3. If it is new, summarize it as quickly as possible - and forget about the details.
And finally there is this specific instruction:
4. Do not send anything up to the neocortex for problem solving unless you have a situation that is really unexpected and out of the ordinary.
These are the basic operating policies and procedures of our brains. No wonder pitching is so difficult.”
Source: Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
“As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.”
“As you are well aware Russia is actively working to undermine our democracy and hurt American businesses at the same time. Now more than ever Americans are looking to Congress for leadership and we must be a united front.”
“As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.”
“As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.”
“As you are, so is the world.”
Source: Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi
“As you are, you see everything else.”
“As you ask and feel and believe, you will receive.”
“As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.”
“As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.”
“As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.”
“As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a smaller number of words.”
Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing
“As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.”
“As you become accustomed to experiencing sensation free of interpretation, you will come to understand that contacting the fundamental ambiguity of being human provides a precious opportunity-- the opportunity to be with life just as it is, the opportunity to experience the freedom of life without a story line.”
Source: Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
“As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.”
“As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.”
“As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.”
“As you become aware of life, you will begin to see the root cause to all your actions and reactions. Then you will realize that you are not angry with the child because he made a mistake, but because you get pleasure out of being angry. The mistake was only a excuse.”
Source: Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
“As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.”
“As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.”
“As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being.”
“As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.”
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
“As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.”
“As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.”
“As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.”
“As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.”
“As you become more rooted inside -- as you drink from this silent stream of life that runs beneath the surface of everything -- as you live from that depth of your own being more and more, then you’ll be able to rise taller and stronger in this world; more than you may have ever thought possible.”
“As you become more sensual, you become more UNRELATABLE.”
“As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.”
“As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.”
Source: Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart
“As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.”
“As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“As you become the best version of yourself you will disappoint a lot of people who were expecting you to remain the same.”
“As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform.”
Source: A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
“As you begin a life of service to your nation, your family, and your god, may your experience at Valor be like the sharpening stone. A blunt and hard movable object that is used to bring an edge to a blade.”
Source: Camp Valor
“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You Workbook
“As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life.”
“As you begin to Awaken.. You discover yourself sitting in nature.. flowing like the river.. Trying to understand the purpose.. then realizing "Nature is Happening, that is its purpose".. You are just like the river flowing through nature.. Your purpose is to be like nature. Start Now.. in the precious moments.. for its the only time that exists.”
“as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself”
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
“As you begin to feel this enormous shift of consciousness, called multisensory perception, emerging in your awareness, you begin to reorient yourself. It's a reorientation that occurs toward yourself as more than a mind and a body; it's a reorientation that occurs toward others; toward your life as meaningful, rather than predetermined. It's a reorientation that occurs toward the universe as alive, wise and compassionate, instead of inert (which means dead) and random.”
“As you begin to heal the inner you, you alter your immune system.”
“As you begin to live in the present moment, you will experience a subtle but profound change. Worrying about the future will cease. A deep peace will enfold you, a peace that says, 'all is well. There is nothing to fear. Everything is unfolding according to plan, and you are being guided each step along the way.”
Source: Words That Heal: Affirmations and Meditations for Daily Living
“As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.”
“As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.”
“As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.”
“As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.”
Source: First Things First
“As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.”