Quotes of: James Keyword

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Lucky! I can only eat glitter and rainbows. Darn my sensitive stomach!

Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great

They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been.

The Virgin of Hopeless Causes

The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change.

The Zoo: An Allegorical Adventure

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.

Alison Gopnik

There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of...

Aubrey de Grey

As a player, you should look at the teams you might want to play for. The city you may want to live in. The system you may want to play in. The economy. The cost of living. Everything. It's about what's best for you.

Amar'e Stoudemire

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Candace Parker

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

Darell Hammond

It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

Dorothy Stratten

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

Jack Kornfield

I try to focus on what I'm supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it's supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.

Jeremy Lin

I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere - the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing.

Kevin Durant

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

Tony Gwynn

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

Tom Heinsohn

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic + the Domestic