Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect. ”

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ”

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed. ”

If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent. ”

Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential. ”

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime. ”

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ”

Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities. ”

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ”

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. ”