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“Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.”

“I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Church Morning Clear Approach Mass Sitting Coming Out

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”

Country Able Lasts Generations Sitting Gains Radio Buttons Banging Osmosis

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.”

Inspirational Ignorance Buddhism Sitting Bounds Forgotten

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to travel there. Most of the worlds are non-physical. And it's all God; it's all eternity”

World Inspirational Needs Littles Earth Universe Planets Buddhism Sitting Eternity Spaceships

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.”

Wells Different Play Home Hero Sitting Seven Finals Versions Desks Variation

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.”

Long Fronts Sitting Screens Get Away Editing Unhealthy

Author:Christian Marclay

“Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.”

Hands Computer Sitting Direct Screens Printing Computer Screen

Author:Christian Marclay

“I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.”

Attention Sitting Best Things Disorder Classroom Deficit Attention Deficit Disorder

Author:Jeremy Miller

“Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.”

Done Five Crazy Minutes Sitting Casts Comic Twilight Five Minutes Comic Con

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”

People Ifs Real Wanted Stuff Sound Records Listening Mouths Sitting Guitar Neat

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.”

Real Night Brain Boys Tvs Moon Late Sitting Standing Exciting Surface Armstrong Saturn Sitting Up Live Tv

Author:David Weber

“The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.”

Whole Judging Sitting Witness Chairs Communist Anarchist Leftists Lobbyists Courtroom

Author:Ernst Zundel

“SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.”

Stills Feelings Sitting Bottom Warm Uncomfortable Seats Vague Uncomfortable Feeling

Author:Douglas Adams

“Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.”

World Want Writing Whole Song Next Talking Records One Day Sitting Whole World Hopefully Broke Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Bruno Mars

“Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.”

Thinking Courses Reading Sitting Aim

Author:Joan Didion

“I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.”

Matter Inspiration Worry Sitting Down And Sitting Down

Author:Frank Herbert

“I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him on the roof of his car and waving to the fans. That was the moment when I thought: 'One day I want to do the same.'”

People Want Moments Lasts Remember Next Father Race Fans Car Fronts One Day Sitting Roof

Author:Nico

“The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.”

People Way Writing Sitting Letters Down And Tales Symphony Exaggerated Composing Sitting Down Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.”

People Thinking Ideas Facts Conditions Office Computer Sitting Screens Noise Staring Annoying Mathematician Ceilings Sitting Around Pristine

Book:Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

“One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.”

People Writing Years Different Ends Hard Example Hard Work Sitting Profit Checks Construction Cash Yards Equipment Metrics

Author:Charlie Munger

“If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.”

Ifs Want Hands Hours Draws Sitting Spending Pens Pencils Sitting Down

Author:Dave Gibbons

“Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.”

“When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.”

Writing Joy Sitting Absolutes Dear Realised Fatty

Author:Dawn French

“Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.”

Waiting Sitting Sitting Around Sitting Around Waiting Sitting And Waiting

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.”

People Nice New York Easier Sitting Come Up Lovely Manage Parks Sane Going Out Enthusiastic Really Nice Sitting Down

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“You can't get rich sitting on the bench.”

Rich Sitting Get Rich Benches Sitting On The Bench

Author:Phil Linz

“I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.”

“If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.”

Ifs Long Stills Moving Periods Sitting Boring Monotony Long Periods Of Time Sitting Still Constantly Moving

Author:Amy Seimetz

“I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'”

Needs Today Artist Hours Four Sitting Okay Sitting Down

Author:Martha Wainwright

“I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I supposed to do?' and she said, 'Just wait, we're going inside to greet the light.' I liked that—this idea to go inside to find that light within, literally as well as figuratively.”

Wells Said Ideas Light House Waiting Sitting Meetings Grandmother My Grandmother Quaker Light Within

Author:James Turrell

“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Reality Lying Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Empty Oneself Liberation Delusion Lying Down

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”

Thinking Knows Mind Lying Walking Sitting Lying Down Zen Proverb

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.”

“If you want more energy, put yourself in situations where energy is required. Your body will naturally respond and always produce the energy you need, but not if you're just sitting around complaining about not having enough energy.”

Ifs Want Needs Enough Body Energy Situation Produce Sitting Wake Up Complaining Your Body Sitting Around Waking Up Early

Author:Hal Elrod

“At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."”

Said Next Accepting Food Sitting Tables Size Enormous Pity Gentleman Host Factories Glances Casting Sausage

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“A lot of people think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing except being holy - and they don't find it very appealing! Thank God that is not what Heaven is like!”

People Thinking Heaven Holy Sitting Clouds Heavenly Thank God Doing Nothing Sitting Around Harps

Author:David Berg

“The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.”

Way Spiritual Teacher Meditation Cry Particular Source Sitting Very Good Goddess Good Way Visualization Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.”

Trying Lines Practice Sitting Bottom Accustomed Bottom Line Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.”

Trying Mind Comfortable Sitting Negative Shining Meditating Negative Thoughts Eliminating Agitate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.”

Ifs Looks Fun Pay Attention Sitting Pay Attention Swim Our Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.”

People Thinking Problem Reality Hours Meditation Sitting Including Buddhist Call Me Monk Buddhist Monk

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.”

Stills Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Active Passive Meditation Practice Sitting Still

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

Thinking Looks Body Form Hate Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Negative Angry Subtle Negative Thoughts Sitting Around

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.”

Forget Attention Produce Buddhism Discipline Mindfulness Sitting Misery Contemplating Sitting Around

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.”

Way Form Next Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"”

Remember Gone Sitting Cafes

Author:Agnes Denes

“For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.”

Thinking Way Mind Persons Art Book School Values Reading Brain Students Type Needed Sitting Connections Height Reaching Classroom Full Potential Good Students

Author:Misty Copeland

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