Findings Quotes - Page 26

• Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

  Martin Seligman

  Spiritual, Thinking, Years

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

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• We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Country, Islam, United States

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• Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.

  Omar Suleiman

  Islam, Causes, Let Down

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 22, 2015

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• Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

  George Carlin

  People, Quality, Different

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• If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

  Dogen

  Discipline, Mind, Finding Peace

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Self, Discipline, Growth

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• Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Giving, Criticism, Faults

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• Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

  Mark Cuban

  Life Changing, Passion, Focus

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• We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Valentines Day, Eye, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and powerful tool in not just providing food for the family but also a brilliant way of connecting children with the natural world.

  Jamie Durie

  Nature, Children, Powerful

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• That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Berries, Facts

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• Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving, Inspiration, Mean

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• A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

  Hermann Hesse

  Success, Men, World

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• One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

  Henry James

  Reading, Pieces, Hated

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• O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."

  Theodore Roethke

  Jesus, Teaching, Use

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.134, Copper Canyon Press

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• My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Imperfection, Feminist, Albums

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• The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

  Robert Pattinson

  Regret, Hate, Romance

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• I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.

  Barack Obama

  Sorry, Memorable, Situation

  "VIDEO: Watch Obama (kinda, sorta) apologize to Americans’ losing their health plans". www.washingtonpost.com. November 7, 2013.

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• Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Creativity, Writing

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• Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Voice, Quality

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• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

  Garry Winogrand

  Inspiring, Photography, Four

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• Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Opportunity

  "The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California".

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• One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Nature, Eye

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.185

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• Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems

  Ken Robinson

  Educational, Effectiveness, Essentials

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