Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling. ”

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. ”

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it'll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it. ”

When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting muscles, and I had a whole different image of myself. ”

Working for the screen is almost like being in the Army: you set your mind to it, and you do it. ”

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ”

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ”

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. ”

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. ”

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ”