Arthur Zajonc Quotes

• Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Garden, Sitting, Half

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• Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Expression, Hands, Quality

  "Holding Life Consciously". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 24, 2010.

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• Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Change, Time, Space

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• The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Leadership, Destiny, People

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