Sitting Down Quotes - Page 6

• When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Mind, Connections

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Teaching, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Morning, Thinking, Obsessive Compulsive

  "Writers' rooms: Andrew O'Hagan" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2007.

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• I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

  Moby

  Thinking, Practice, Meditation

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my baby so I can eat potato salad sitting down.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Party, Looks

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• I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Mean, Horror Stories, One Day

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

  Joseph Conrad

  Morning, Eight, Hours

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

  Jonathan Groff

  Mother, Strong, School

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• Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I've kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don't like it with champagne.

  Iris Apfel

  Dream, Husband, Choices

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.

  Jose Gonzalez

  People, Want, Able

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• In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that I would necessarily have gotten anywhere anyway. But it definitely set me back to be in so much pain.

  Lynne Tillman

  Pain, Writing, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well I started out on guitar, so it is still the mainstay of my music. But I have recently been working very hard on my piano, and it is coming along to the point where it is taking more of the spotlight. It has been my plan to be able to make music well into my old age, and sitting down seems like a good idea. Also, I don't have to carry the piano on the road. I haven't been playing the banjo much of late because of the difficulties of travelling with so much gear. But maybe I'll bring it to Japan. It adds a different color to the musical palette.

  Livingston Taylor

  Guitar, Japan, Color

  Interview with Ms. Nanami, livingstontaylor.com. December 15, 2006.

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• Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Food, Should

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• Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.

  Katherine Paterson

  Dream, School, Thinking

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

  Rumer Godden

  Happiness, Book, Two

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• ~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~

  Katie Couric

  Mom, Art, Educational

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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• I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Giving, Rockets

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• Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

  Clifford Stoll

  Technology, Two, Yellow

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• You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Volunteer, Footprint, Sand

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• I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

  Charlie Munger

  Dream, Smart, Believe

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• I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Commitment, Persistence, Stumbling

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• Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen.

  Julie Garwood

  Mother, Father, Feet

  Julie Garwood (1997). “The Wedding”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Spiritual, Sweet, Talking

  "What We Nurture". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 9, 2013.

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• When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe."

  Steven Soderbergh

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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