Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason. ”

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for. ”

I'm alive. That's a good thing. ”

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive. ”

I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky. ”

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. ”

Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he. ”

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. ”

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life. ”

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier. ”