Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ”

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. ”

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. ”

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in. ”

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become. ”

I remember that our deportment in Primary was not always as it should be. I had a lot of energy and found it difficult to sit patiently in a class. ”

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?' ”

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented. ”

We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff. ”

I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down. ”