Waking Quotes - Page 29

• I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Sleep, Shade

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• Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Imagination, Half

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• You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Real

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• Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Firsts, Crime, Should

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Groups, Analyzing, Financial

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• You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.

  Paul Newman

  Morning, Looks, Wake Up

  "Paul Newman dies at 83". edition.cnn.com. September 27, 2008.

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• I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

  Warren Buffett

  Sleep, Hands, Order

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• There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."

  David Slade

  Dream, Anxiety, Wake Up

  Source: collider.com

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• I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

  Edmund White

  Dream, Irrelevance, Shadow

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

  Cesare Pavese

  Corpses, Left

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• The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Opportunity, Men

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

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• It's important to leave your face without makeup for a while after waking up...Let your skin breathe a while before applying your makeup, even if it means waking up a bit earlier.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mean, Makeup, Important

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• You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

  Allan Houston

  Morning, School, Kids

  "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

  Ronald Gross

  Kids, Hands, Chess

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• God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

  Socrates

  Communication, Mean, Sleep

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• May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Sleep, Insanity

  Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling (1994). “Lewis Carroll's Diaries: Containing Journal 4, January to December 1856”

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• Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike,
  we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Serious, Problem, Treats

  Tarthang Tulku (1981). “Hidden mind of freedom”, Dharma Pub

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• The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Night, Different

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• There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

  Tony Blair

  Baby, Morning, Reality

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• When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

  Sean Penn

  Morning, People, Interesting

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• What good is this body? Let it go in helping others. Did not the Master preach until the very end? And shall I not do the same? I do not care a straw if the body goes. You cannot imagine how happy I am when I find earnest seekers after truth to talk to. In the work of waking up Atman in my fellow men I shall gladly die again and again!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Men, Let It Go

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• I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Two, Bed

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

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• If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.

  Gary Gulman

  Stars, War, Years

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• Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long Ago, Brain, Wake Up

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.81, Penguin

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• I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Up Early, Wake Up

  "Country queen Dolly Parton insists she didn't have sex with anyone to become a star" by Kerry Harden, www.mirror.co.uk. April 27, 2014.

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