Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair. ”

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart. ”

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding. ”

I think BBC3 gave me my first commissions because I wasn't a middle-class, highbrow journalist. I was able to speak to the contributors on a level that perhaps some journalists don't. ”

We can't forget that there are so many young people who are homeless - and unbelievably vulnerable. ”

There are people who dismiss any ideas you have about helping, but anything has got to be better than doing absolutely nothing... hasn't it? ”

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot. ”

I love being in people's houses. ”

That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form. ”

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer. ”