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Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.

Henepola Gunaratana

Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (2010). “Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a corresponding development of morality.

Carl Jung

Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

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Jesus has prepared the way and has made following our destiny possible, whereas we are helpless by ourselves. We can find and fulfill our purpose by responding to the clear, simple call of Jesus Christ: "Follow Me." He is the doorway to fulfilling our destiny, where our divine design and God-ordained purpose live in perfect harmony.

Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus, Simple, Destiny

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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

Andy Grove

Team, Fire, Events

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Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

Ruth Bernhard

Real, Eye, Black And White

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A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

John Heilpern

Cat, Exercise, Thinking

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Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward something that is pleasing? You can't cease to vibrate, and Law of Attraction will not stop responding to the vibration that you are offering. So, expansion is inevitable. You provide it, whether you know you do, or not. The only question is, what is the standard of joy that you are demanding for yourself? From your Nonphysical perspective, it's a high, high standard.

Esther Hicks

Moving, Law Of Attraction, Offering

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Living
consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
moment.

Sidney Poitier

Honesty, African American, Live In The Moment

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When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

Ingmar Bergman

Intellectual, Skins, Unmotivated

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All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

Tom Hiddleston

Imagination, Mind, Acting

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The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.

Hugh Jackman

Real, Mean, Thinking

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Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

Erich Fromm

Love, Mean, Caring

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I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might see it, but within yourself you become used to the idea of hearing your fellow actors, responding to them in space.

Simon McBurney

Ideas, Space, Theatre

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Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

Abraham Zaleznik

Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power to be happier by changing your habits. Taking "response-ability": responding to all the events in your life in a way that supports your happiness.

Marci Shimoff

Happiness, Two, Support

Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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That All-That-Isness that is responding to your vibration is that which you call God.

Esther Hicks

God, Vibrations

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Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

John de Ruiter

Moving, Heart, Past

"No Longer Determined by Your Past". Interview, johnderuiter.com. July 1, 2014.

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How someone is responding to you may have nothing to do with you.

Marshall Sylver

May

Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

George Steiner

Memories, Challenges, Growth

George Steiner (1991). “Martin Heidegger”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

Michael Jackson

Children, Creativity, Simple

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Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

Yogi Berra

Funny, Thinking, Said

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Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.

Helena Bonham Carter

Differences, People, Mail

Interview with Tom Mottram, www.stylist.co.uk.

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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.

John Dewey

Teacher, Children, Educational

John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press

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The Universe knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you.

Esther Hicks

Law Of Attraction, Purpose, Vibrations

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The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more Well-Being flows to you-and you get to choose the details of how it flows.

Esther Hicks

Attitude, Blessing, Law Of Attraction

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