Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
""Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy."
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Stopping
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Art Wolfe
Photographer
"Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs"
DJ Khaled
Music Producer
"They go'n try to stop you, they go'n try. Notice how I said true. We ain't never stopping."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."
Robert Henri
Artist
"The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook."
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"My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality."
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"Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it."
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"For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God."
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"The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity."
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"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
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"To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam."
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"Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh."
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"I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all."
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"I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience."
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"Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings."
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"Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works."
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"Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping."
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"It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping."
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"Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all."
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"A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery."
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"Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses."
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"All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH."
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"I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there."
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"In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates."
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"Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping."
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