One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The modern Western world is in many ways a sustained attempt to deal with the unintended and unwanted problems related to the… — Brad Stephan Gregory Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Under the current system, all children under 17 are treated equally. However, while some films may be appropriate for older children to… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned… — Arthur J. Deikman Copy Share Image
What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
A lot of my best friends are the best person for the job in a film, but sometimes being a filmmaker I'll… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
There is only one problem: You do not trust your powers. There is no difference between you and God. Count your blessings.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go… — Scott McNealy Copy Share Image
Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide,… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist:… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring… — Fuyumi Ono Copy Share Image
I ask a simple question. Hillary Clinton has been doing this for 30 years. Why the hell didn't you do it over… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other… — Avi Rubin Copy Share Image
Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It's obvious to say you can't please everybody and there are always going to be people who are going to say, I… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image