“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.” IfsTryingMindDoeMomentsRoomsPracticeDisciplineDown AndCalmIntuitionSubtleSlow DownRestlessExpanse Book:Steve Jobs Source: Steve Jobs
“January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.” MenYearsHumansTwoMomentsActionMemoriesCitiesDoorsMagicOne ThingMonthsColdPureAll ThingsDown AndSnowFamiliarYieldOld ManGrayBellsGrimJanuaryHuman ActionsJester Author:Patricia Highsmith
“The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.” MomentsMotivationalTodayTurnsForgetDestinyOur LivesHabitAspectDown AndTablesResistanceNever ForgetProcrastinationOur DestinyLive For TodayDeathbedPernicious Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Will began to straighten up, to turn away from the bed. And as he did, he felt something wrap tightly around his wrist. He glanced down and saw Jem’s hand braceleting his own. For a moment he was too shocked to do anything but stare. “I am not dead yet, Will,” Jem said in a soft voice, thin but as strong as wire. “What did Magnus mean by asking you if I knew you were in love with Tessa?” IfsMeanSaidMomentsHandsTurnsStrongFeltVoiceSawsBedAskingDown AndStaringShockedWireWrapsWristsJem Author:Cassandra Clare
“Shutup,Caine," Edilio said in a voice so soft it was almost a whisper. Anger, a dangerous anger, flared in Caine. "Who are you to talk to me that way?" "You've been the problem, Caine. From the start. You're the one who kept us from ever really being able to unite, to fight this thing, You and your stupid need to control everyone. Don't you come here now all sheepish, all head hanging down and tell me you're scared." Edilio stabbed a finger in Caine's chest. It was such a un-Edilio moment it surprised them both.” WayNeedsSaidMomentsProblemAbleFightingVoiceDangerousStupidDown AndFingersScaredChestsTalk To MeYour Stupid Author:Michael Grant
“By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single moment you begin to be aware of the gap - imageless gap of the screen - you have the glimpse. Suddenly you know that you have lived in the dreams of your own creation; and whatsoever you have known as the world was not the world really, it was YOUR world.” IfsKnowsWorldTryingMomentsDreamKnownMeditationCreationDown AndScreensGapsMechanismGlimpseSlow DownProjectionSingle Mom Author:Rajneesh
“One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.” MenMindMayMomentsAmericaEvilParentPresidentUniversalDown AndRewardsServantThat MomentIdolsDistrustFragmentsDownfallBenefactorsPublic ServantsHigh Places Author:Charles Dickens
“Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's down. Now taxi in. Switch off. It's over - but not quite, for the port engine, just as if it knew, as if reluctant at the last to let me go, kicked, kicked, and kicked again, as overheated engines will, then backfired with an angry snorting: Fool! The best is over ...But I did not hear.” IfsFeelsLongMomentsHomeLastsGivenFoolLet MeDown AndAngrySticksFlightAviationEnginesFloatsReluctantPortTaxiLet Me Go Author:Cecil Arthur Lewis
“When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.” WritingSaidSometimesMomentsSongFeltHeardMirrorsDown AndBelieverDesperatePoetry IsSongwritingEliotGood Poetry Author:Marcus Mumford
“Over the months, I kept seeing more feathers, especially at moments when I was really down and distraught. You ask for signs in your life, but what you get is more like a confirmation: You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.” NeedsMomentsAsksSeeingMonthsBreathsDown AndFeathersDeep BreathConfirmationTake A Deep BreathDistraught Author:Lana Parrilla
“I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then I started to flail out and panic. I gradually calmed down and I got home. But the reality was that in that moment I was panicking and I feel like that to me was the clue about Ripley, that Ripley constantly finds himself out of his depth in the film and then reacts very, very badly.” FeelsMomentsHomeRealityFilmHalfLandDown AndDepthMilesThat MomentPanicNow And ThenClue Author:Anthony Minghella