The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
It is about simple awareness — awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: “This is water, this is water.
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
I've been homeless on a few occasions.
I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks ov...
But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same...
Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order t...
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
The truth is never dressed for the occasion.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.
Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.
Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.
