Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Henepola Gunaratana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
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  • Birth: December 7, 1927

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I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

Andy Dick

SkinnyOnlyShapedGuessOddly

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Alvin E. Roth

WorkMathematicsWorldBetterAlways

My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family.

Stellan Skarsgard

FamilyGoodFatherStressWorldUs

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

Mary Douglas

TerrorismLeadMayViolent

I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

Mary Page Keller

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Talk to successful entrepreneurs. Learn about what they've experienced so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that come with wealth.

Diane Hendricks

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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

Christopher Alexander

BeautifulGreatYourselfTreesYou

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

Brian Ferneyhough

WorkLightI AmProcessSaidSee

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Anthony Doerr

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Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Alice Lowe

ConfidenceWomanPeopleMeThinking

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

William Lilly

GreatMeAffectionDeadMasterMost

I'll never go to Bavaria, that's for sure. That would be too hard for the Dortmund fans. No matter what they offer me, I would say no. Absolutely no way.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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