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Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth

“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.”

Feels Children Feelings Mother Lost Emotion Engaged Elsewhere Parental Ambivalent

Book:The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

Source: The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956

“I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Song Welfare Engaged

Author:Ian MacKaye

“I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.”

Together Sound Europe Engaged Concerts Solo Touring Quartets Trios

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.”

Has Beens War My Own Practice Rights Movement Fields Buddhism Civil Rights Engaged Anti War Anti War Movement

Author:Joan Halifax

“Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.”

Feels Design Projects Code Engaged Productive Buried Introverted

Author:David Karp

“Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.”

Realizing Company Nice Communication Elements Significant Engaged Officials Tape Trading Rockets Insiders Rocket Science Insider Trading

Author:Preet Bharara

“Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.”

Stills Country Use Past Term Example Involved Conversation Gun Forgotten Engaged Appropriate

Author:Stephen Daldry

“The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.”

Might Pain Success Goal Differences Secret Achieve Possibility Enthusiasm Excitement Engaged Secret To Success Achieving Your Goals

Author:Hal Elrod

“Every result or goal you want to achieve is preceded by a process. The secret to success is to remain unconditionally committed to your (day-to-day) process without being emotionally attached to your (day-to-day) results. Be emotionally engaged, but not emotionally attached.”

Want Success Process Goal Results Secret Achieve Committed Engaged Day To Day Secret To Success

Author:Hal Elrod

“We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Problem Wanted Names Force Powerful Planets Environmental Surface Engaged Most Powerful Sunlight Temperature Theological

Author:Bill McKibben

“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?”

People Ifs Ends Home Care Particular Benefits Workers Health Care Engaged Knowledge Workers

Author:Mark T Bertolini

“I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.”

Pain Found Ability Practice Study Meditation Huge Arms Yoga Direct Impact Scripture Conclusion Nervous Ties Engaged Helpful Engaging Sympathetic Nervous System Gita Yoga Sutra

Author:Mark T Bertolini

“Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.”

Growth Growing Photography Infinite Storytelling Engaged Exponential Growth

Author:Alec Soth

“Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.”

People Form Voice Effort Deeds Engaged

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.”

Writing Book Ideas States Reading Felt Memories Alive Spending Brilliant Engaged Positively Rapture Bursting

Author:Nora Ephron

“We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.”

Want Inspirational I Can Next Can Do Resources Breaths Engaged Next Time Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Book:Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.”

“In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.”

Firsts Jobs Work Performances Engaged

Author:Garson Kanin

“I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.”

Ifs Knows Men Helping Fighting Know How Deserve Opposites Engaged

Author:Arthur Balfour

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.”

Secret Computer Versions Consumers Engaged Deceit Hiding Technological Files Cloaks Daggers Sony

Author:Greg Abbott

“If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.”

Ifs States Facts Education Greater Willing Promise Lays Profession Engaged

Book:Isocrates

Source: Isocrates

“Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.”

Ifs Should Made War Ends Middle Fronts Battle Engaged Latter Total War Infantry Cavalry

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”

Culture Nations Social Church Justice Building Diversity Social Justice Uplifting Engaged Nation Building Church Buildings

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.”

“Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.”

Fighting Difficulty Engaged Warfare

Author:Brigham Young

“Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.”

Men Moral Support Conditions Industry Organization Strive Every Man Engaged Spheres Time And Money

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.”

Shows Roles Teacher Karma Buddhist Discussion Engaged Enlightened Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

Ifs Littles States Motivational Today Rich Plans Following Engaged Contentment Fulfilling Heresy Future Plans More Is Better

Author:Robert A. Johnson

“We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.”

“I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.”

People Women Doubt Defined Engaged Encounters Advisable

Author:Amanda Marcotte

“My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment.”

Art Moments Inspiration Expression Engaged Mma Nature Love

Author:Rickson Gracie

“Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.”

Thinking Knows Art Stills Enough School Hell Truth Is Engaged Questioning

Author:David Salle

“In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.”

Firsts Long Soul Reason Body Moving Waiting Morning Gone Journey Strange Behavior Sat Engaged Load Traveler Tribes Inquiry Jungle

Author:Lettie Cowman

“When I went through a really intense break-up - you know, I was engaged - the thing that gave me the most anxiety was not knowing what to do with myself when Disney wasn't there to carry me anymore or if I didn't have him. And now I'm FREE of both of those things and I'm fine. I lay in bed at night by myself and I'm totally OK and that's so much stronger than the person three years ago, who would have thought they would have died if they didn't have a boyfriend.”

Ifs Knows Years Persons Night Three Break Knowing Fine Bed Anxiety Years Ago Died Stronger Lays Intense Engaged Three Years Not Knowing Knowing What To Do

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.”

Humans Has Beens Human Beings Circles Engaged Gambling Respectable Dregs

Book:Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving

Source: Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving

“A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.”

May Conditions Constitution Reactions Rational Engaged Folly Guarantees Excess Irrational Rivals Opposing Degenerates Credulity Slender Scepticism

Author:William E. Gladstone

“I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.”

Humanity Found Sea Gold Treasure Dust Engaged Throwing Diamond Gutters

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.”

Values Company Concepts Engaged Meaningless Manufacturing Retail Insurance Companies Retail Business

Author:Peter Drucker

“I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.”

Should Engaged Senators Supporter Campaigning Obama Supporters

Author:Pete Wentz

“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.”

Persons Dies Born Principles Married Died Property Contrary Engaged Resent Precaution Encroachment

Author:John Galsworthy

“There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.”

Long Government Opinion Influence Members Office Congress Expected Reform Permanent Engaged Legislation Public Opinion Constituents Congressman Patronage Civil Service

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.”

Ifs World Want Acting Audience Listening Happenings Engaged Processing

Author:Richard Gere

“I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it's a whole new paradigm.”

Thinking World Should Whole America Strong Growth Community Effort Leader Economic Military Engaged Economic Growth Policemen Paradigm Integrating Diplomatic

Author:John Kasich

“Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'”

Thinking World Made War Reason Today America Film Fighting Asks Clear Series Iraq War Of The Worlds Engaged Crucial World War Ii Elsewhere Frank World War I Troops Entering Our Troops

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.”

Mind Hands Spirit Courses Easy Common Attitude Affair Engaged Communion Communion With God Course Of Life

Book:Living In God's Power

Source: Living In God's Power

“To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.”

Thinking World Way Mean Seeing Missions Engaged

Book:Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church

Source: Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church

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