Joan Halifax Quotes

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Joan Halifax

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One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Jim Carrey

WorkHopePowerI AmDrunkMy Own

We don't think there is any money to be made in payments anymore. The entire business model of extracting a toll or having time delays around the movement of value is going away completely.

Jeremy Allaire

BusinessTimeMoneyValueThink

The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

John Gourley

ManMistakeThinkThoughtNameKnow

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

Jemima Kirke

HumbleSimpleMeInterestingI Can

Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.

Ann Druyan

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A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Alton Brown

FoodInspireNeedEmpowerOnlySome

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

Rivers Cuomo

GoodThinkAskHardFinalKids

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Ronald Reagan

WorldViolenceImportantBeenMost

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

Mary Pilon

WorkPeopleMeThinkThreeLine

Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

Mike Wallace

ManAmericaYouImagineMostToo

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

Deborah Norville

LifeBetterMy LifeLongWrongKnow

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

Conrad Burns

KnowledgePowerBelieveGivingLook

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