Pema Chodron Quotes

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

Pema Chodron

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TimeHabitFlyLongSeeingPerson

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

Andrea Bocelli

FearVoiceExpectationsProblemYou

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell

ArtPaintingMaskTraditionPerson

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

Ann Romney

FaithExperienceYouNeedWellFive

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Tracy K. Smith

StruggleBelievePossibilitiesDoubt

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

Robyn Hitchcock

GoodTimeNowLivingBeenStuff

Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.

Luka Sulic

MusicLongChoiceBoringAlways

I've been chasing some paychecks. Modeling. I don't discriminate against paychecks. I've got to pay the bills.

Luke Rockhold

ModelingPayAgainstGotBeenBills

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

Judy Davis

WayHonestDeliciousJustGenerous

A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.

Jared Polis

LifeDemocracyFreeInternetWay

The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.

Chieh Huang

BestAdviceDoneImportantUrgency

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

Brian May

MeSomeoneFindBecauseGeneralNet

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

Chuck Pagano

LifeFamilyFootballUpSomething

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