Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels. ”

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. ”

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel. ”

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism. ”

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. ”

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. ”

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ”

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. ”

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance. ”

I don't feel famous. ”