Waking Quotes - Page 30

• It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

  Bertrand Russell

  Waking Life, May, Nightmare

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• The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room able as Jesus' hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually (without ceasing), to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with His ears with every waking moment.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Powerful, Prayer

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• If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like good melodrama because it's just an undumping of all these compulsions we feel that we work so hard to master during our waking hours. No wonder we crash to sleep in bed at night. We have to, otherwise we'd just spend our waking hours shredding the feelings from everybody else.

  Guy Maddin

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.

  John Feldmann

  Morning, Coffee, Ocean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

  Woody Allen

  Sleep, Hours, Enjoy

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• The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

  A. J. McLean

  Dream, Perfect Days, Bed

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• At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

  Nhat Hanh

  Wake Up, Bed, Moments

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• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Doors, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.

  William C. Dement

  Dream, Block, Creating

  William C. Dement (1996). “The sleepwatchers”

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• For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Dream, Heart, Self

  "Tapping Into Dreams for Intuitive Decision-Making" by Christina Lemieux, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2015.

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• Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Writing, Years

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.336, Mango Media Inc.

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• I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.

  Matthea Harvey

  Memories, Writing, Sunset

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."

  Satish Kumar

  Numbers, People, Meaning Of Life

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die

  Debra Dean

  Summer, Mother, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange.

  Rae Morris

  Wake Up, Fifteen, Able

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• A lot of it is just waking up and putting one foot in front of the other and going where I just go, a natural progression. The other thing is I do have a lot of ideas. TV seems to be where it happens faster, quicker. You are trying to get a movie off the ground, and it's very difficult. One movie takes two years to make

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Years, Ideas, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Dream, Memories, Ends

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day. So, instead of waking up and going straight for my cell phone or running to the gym, I take a few deep breaths, envision what I'd like to achieve that day, then rid my mind of anything that isn't going to help me get there.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Running, Phones, Cells

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• King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Sleep, Break Through

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• It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, and everything in between has to bring you that. Or else what is the point?

  Daphne Zuniga

  Morning, Night, Safety

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

  Meital Dohan

  Morning, Car, Wake Up

  "Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘on Ya,’ Meital Feat. Sean Kingston". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt it. I woke up - just before waking up one morning, I sort of dreamt this song or the idea of it and the first little bit of it. And I jumped out of bed and I thought, well, you're still asleep. You're going to forget this in a minute - you know, like you do when you've had a dream.

  Nick Lowe

  Dream, Song, Religious

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• Early studies of sleep and dreaming were crucially dependent on waking subjects up during sleep to find out whether they are dreaming or not. Using that strategy, it was found that when the eyes are rapidly moving (REM sleep) people are usually dreaming; when the eyes are not moving, there may be some mentation, but little in the way of visually rich dreams.

  Patricia Churchland

  Dream, Moving, Sleep

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him.

  Ted Cruz

  Real, Views, Campaigns

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to the easiest part of solving - the realization that anthropogenic global warming is real.

  Philip Kitcher

  Real, Climate, Wake Up

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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