Waking Quotes - Page 32

• I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.

  Rex Hunt

  Eye, Thinking, Fishing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Education, Morning

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sleep, Literature, Eating

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin

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• What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Love, Fall, Wake Up

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• A handsome young guy is stretching his arms and waking up. He is just about to reach for his coffee and is now being wished good morning by me. Have a lovely day ahead.

  John Styles

  Good Morning, Coffee, Guy

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• Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

  Ai Weiwei

  Lying, Choices, Wake Up

  Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Art, Waking Life

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• In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Moving, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.44, New World Library

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• In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Song, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.

  Burial

  Song, Rain, Dark

  "Only five people know I make tunes". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.

  Frank Laubach

  Years, Giving, Mind

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing.

  Derrick Jensen

  Reading, Sleep, Thinking

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.109, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors

  Bradford Morrow

  Dream, People, Desire

  Bradford Morrow (2011). “The Diviner's Tale”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.

  Steve Carell

  Sleep, Night, Smell

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• The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Spring, Ocean, Sleep

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• We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

  John Welwood

  Wake Up, Form, Humans

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• There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.

  Jenny Han

  Dream, Space, Wake Up

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• What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

  Louis Mackey

  Real, People, Answers

  "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.

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• I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

  Barbara Walters

  Atheist, Equal Pay, Sin City

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• Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

  Louis Mackey

  Waking Life, Laziness, Characteristics

  "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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