I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles,… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense.… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I was fortunate and worked hard to graduate top of my class as a primary school teacher and receive the Vere Foster… — Sinead Burke Copy Share Image
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Well, I take great comfort in the words of the apostle Paul who said, ‘What I will to do, that I do… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luidaeg: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining… — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through… — Rajiv Mehrotra Copy Share Image
The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to be doing what I love, and I appreciate that I can make a good living doing it. I love… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Someone who sees you on a certain night, maybe they've seen you on a bad night. I've seen Tom Brady throw interceptions.… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my… — Lacey Chabert Copy Share Image
Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The literal meaning of "yoga" is "union," "integration," "reconnection." But in the context of practice, yoga is a way of gaining access… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like… — Amanda Beard Copy Share Image
I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
