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“Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.”

Thinking Helping Spiritual Talking Steps Practice Meditation Eating Sitting Breaths Drinking Touching Every Step Spiritual Practice Meditation Practice

Book:Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

“When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe."”

People Ifs Thinking World Believe Looks Ideas Problem I Believe Sitting Tables Solve Ideology Around The World Working It Sitting Down

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.”

“I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.”

Thinking Three Walking Sitting Standing Showers Great Times

Book:The Complete Walker IV

Source: The Complete Walker IV

“When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.”

Thinking Kind Children Facts Law Mother Night Too Much Trouble Sitting Sick Weather All Kinds Beloved Imperatives Appointments Chaps Sick Children

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the tree of knowledge and hooting the hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years. But I want it so that each one can be an investigator, a thinker; and I want to make his congregation grand enough so that they will not only allow him to think, but will demand that he shall think, and give to them the honest truth of his thought.”

“A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something in their childhood and they don't want to think they themselves were sexually abused as children or they are abusing their own children and they're sitting on a bench and they either can't admit it, won't admit it, depending on how deeply buried it is.”

People Thinking Want Children Law Childhood Crime Sitting Criminals Supposed To Be Buried Benches Sexually

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're giving three years of your life to it. And so, I just have to be sure that when I embark on it that I'm happy to think that in three years' time I'm going to be sitting in a room on the tenth floor of an odd office building at Ginsberg Libby talking about it. So I'm keen not to jump into it too quickly and just make sure it's something that I really want.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Writing Years Film Three Process Rooms Talking Building Truth Is Office Sitting Tough Odd Three Years Ginsberg Write Your Own Office Buildings

Author:Dan Mazer

“My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.”

Thinking Art Artist Next Dark Art Is Sitting Definitions Dirty Kitchen Smoking Dishes Artwork Dirty Dishes

Author:Matthew Brannon

“And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.”

“I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.”

Thinking Way Faces Turns Morning Becoming Sitting Diets Pot Every Morning Pencils Obsessive Coke Sitting Down Fridges Beckham Diet Coke Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.”

Thinking Feels I Can Feelings Body Can Do Walks Steps Movement Sitting Cameras Incredibles Crowds Cages Daydreaming Headings I Can Do It

Author:Conor McGregor

“I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who, all of a sudden, realize who is sitting in the restaurant and the first thing they react on is not necessarily, "There's that actor," but it's, "There's that killer guy."”

People Thinking Years Firsts Littles Has Beens Different Guy Actors Bits Realizing Little Bit Sitting Years Ago Tendencies Restaurants Killers

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?”

People Thinking Should Believe I Can Together Sitting Should Have Abstract Restaurants Get Together

Author:Andy Warhol

“It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.”

Thinking Feelings Home Night Worst Late Clothes Sitting Stranger Coming Home Couches Me Alone

Author:Dane Cook

“At the Last Supper how come no one sat on the other side of the table? See, I think originally there were people sitting on the other side but those were the people going, You know, the air conditioning hits me right on the back on the neck.”

People Thinking Knows Lasts Sides Air Sitting Tables Sat Necks Conditioning Supper Air Conditioning Last Supper

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“It was so ridiculous. We were just sitting there, thinking about how ridiculous it was because we literally had stray hairs on us. The camera couldn't pick up all the details, but we had some crazy things. We had huge slabs of fat on us and bits of nails and hair. It was disgusting. But, there's also the beautiful parts of it.”

Thinking Beautiful Bits Crazy Huge Hair Picks Sitting Cameras Details Ridiculous Fats Disgusting Nails Crazy Things Slabs

Author:Steven Yeun

“I didn't really because I know myself well enough to know that if I actually sit down and think about sort of I can spook myself out like anyone, you know? It's sort of like you've got to sort of jump out of the airplane when you're skydiving. If you spend 20 minutes sitting on the lip you probably won't do it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells I Can Enough Minutes Like You Sitting Down And Lips Airplane Skydiving

Author:Justin Theroux

“Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you.”

People Thinking Knows World Jobs Courses Next Rooms Changed Television Sitting Cameras Around The World Frightened Exorcist

Author:Linda Blair

“Sitting in a hotel room just makes you sit and think about things.”

Thinking Rooms Sitting Hotel Hotel Rooms

Author:Nathan Sykes

“Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.”

Thinking Sometimes Might Written Sitting Doing Nothing Sitting Around Few Words

Book:Starting At Zero: His Own Story

Source: Starting At Zero: His Own Story

“I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.”

Thinking Giving Written Week Havens Couple Sitting Awful Piano Giving Yourself

Author:George Shearing

“I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."”

People Thinking Men Figures Color Sitting Definitions Invisible Passing Passings Nerd Being Me Time Passing Time Passes Nerdy

Author:Junot Diaz

“I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.”

Thinking Feels Wells Practice Meditation Minutes Ten Benefits Sitting Down And Well Being Meditating Sitting Down Meditation Practice

Author:Moby

“I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.”

Thinking Giving Joy Courses Community Laughing Greater Sitting Minimum Sitting Around Family Friends

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!"”

Thinking Persons I Can Light Would Be Moving Progress Fronts Couple Late Sitting Red Coffee Nine Destination Inches Compelled Danish Pull Ups Red Lights

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.”

People Thinking Knows World Littles Age Sitting Golden Empires Contention Golden Age Cabal

Author:Elizabeth Montagu

“I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?”

Thinking Doe Past Talking Sitting Accomplish Sitting Around Thinking About The Past

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.”

Thinking Dying Sitting Toilets Contemplative

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Eye Lying Attitude Practice Meditation Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Steady Coming Out Posture Wherever You Are Lying Down

Author:Ajahn Chah

“I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.”

Thinking Made Stills Facts Eye Term Numbers Class Trouble Fronts Couple Sitting Letters Eight Despite Tested Dyslexic Short Sighted Blackboard

Book:Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

Source: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

“When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Littles Feelings Bigs Remember Rooms Novel Fronts Computer Sitting Smoke Cigarette

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world, that's what we're surrounded with. We have all these little tools, such as phones and the Internet, to help us forget about suffering. Whenever you are tired, you don't have to really sit in the abyss of what it means to be alive. We always find ways to avoid it. When a ship sinks, you are sitting in it. There is no way to avoid.”

Thinking World Way Trying Mean Littles Facts Helping Life Is Suffering Forget Alive Modern Figures Internet Sitting Tools Tired Phones Ships Abyss Modern World

Author:Matt de la Pena

“Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part is not writing. Once the writing starts, it's too pleasurable to think of it as a difficulty.”

Thinking Writing Written Sitting Difficulty Hardest Satisfying

Author:Billy Collins

“Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.”

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Author:Bucky Sinister

“I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.”

“I think money isn't any good sitting around, so I spend some time in the shoe department at Saks.”

Thinking Sitting Shoes Department Sitting Around

Author:Janet Evanovich

“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.”

People Thinking Feels Wanted Middle Reader Sitting My Friends Tables Everyday Average Hearing Dinner East Curious Middle East Everyday Life Texture Sitting Around Best Place Dinner Table

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“I suppose ever since I was about 14, I remember listening to "Sgt. Pepper's," and I remember thinking, "how do you possibly write songs like that?" I remember starting to try and write songs around that age, but just sitting around with an acoustic guitar, and try to come up with ideas for songs, and that's just what I've done ever since. I just never really stopped doing that, I suppose.”

Thinking Writing Trying Ideas Done Age Remember Song Listening Sitting Guitar Starting Come Up Acoustics Sitting Around Peppers Acoustic Guitar Sgt Pepper

Author:Colin Hay

“Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.”

Thinking Mind Real Ends Stories Novel Greater Effects Emotional Sitting Rhythm Emotional Power

Author:Adam Ross

“I can't imagine deer hunting. I used to think I couldn't imagine deer hunting because killing a deer seemed so awful. But now I think about just sitting in a tree and doing nothing all day and probably not even seeing a deer. Not moving and sitting in a tree? That seems rough.”

Thinking I Can Seems Moving Used Imagine Seeing Tree Sitting Killing Awful Rough Hunting Doing Nothing Deer Deer Hunting

Author:Joel Stein

“I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're coming of age or growing up you look forward and you work really hard instead of sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the moment.”

Thinking Writing Looks Hard Moments Kids Age Enjoy Growing Up Growing Sitting Embrace Coming Of Age Enjoying The Moment

Author:Sean Mackin

“I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.”

“Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Ideas Moments Helping Bigs Used Three Bits Perfect Attention Focus Meditation Minutes Car Little Bit Sitting Breathe These Days Inward Perfectionist

Author:Renee Marino

“I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.”

Thinking Trying Years Feelings Able Jobs Special Lucky Sitting Theater Extraordinary

Author:Chris Weitz

“I think Roosevelt proves himself to be the ultimate political force in this book. He really wasn't for primaries until he realized it was the only way in which he could challenge a sitting president then it becomes his crusade, is to create the primaries and to call for the people to rule.”

People Thinking Way Book Political Force President Challenges Prove Sitting Ultimate Primaries Crusades

Author:Geoffrey Cowan

“My wildest tipping point moment came when I was introduced to Clint Eastwood. He was sitting there, typical Clint Eastwood, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, holding a Budweiser. He looks at me and says, "I watch your show from time to time." I just stopped. I was like, "I can't even think about that. I'm not even sure if I'm happy about that."”

Ifs Thinking Looks I Can Moments Shows White Watches Sitting Shirts Typical Look At Me Jeans T Shirt Tipping Tipping Point Budweiser

Author:Chris Harrison

“I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that. I think...”

Thinking Knows Trying Film Sitting Angry Ships Posts Comment Misunderstood Floats Kate

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but you're really of no use. A lot of people get excited about guys like that but I can't get too excited about it because I think he's sorta useless. He's just sitting there in India under a blanket looking beautiful, so what.”

People Thinking Giving I Can Use Beautiful Guy Hours Six Sitting India Excited Useless Sandwiches Blanket Looking Beautiful

Author:Brad Warner

“Success looks like you sitting here pretty confident that an armed brigade isn't going to come pouring in here and blow your head off. Which I don't think is your major concern. Therefore, the United States' foreign policy is successful.”

Thinking Looks States United United States Successful Policy Like You Majors Sitting Concern Blow Foreign Policy Pouring

Author:George Friedman

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