“The quality of our attention determines our experience.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 207 of 303
“When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.”
“People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.”
“It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?”
“My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.”
“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.”
“Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.”
“Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.”
“Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.”
“It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.”
“I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.”
“Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.”
“Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.”
“A great deal of it is personal. But the persona is, I guess, the out of body experience that takes place. Because I'm not conscious of what the outcome is going to be, I'm only conscious of my intentions, do you know what I'm saying? And even my intentions were simple initially.”
“I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.”
“So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.”
“If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers.”
“Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.”
“The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.”
“Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.”