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• I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and a feeling. The melody itself has a feeling in it. The keys, the tones, frequency, sonics, all of those have feelings in it. Like, it's the ghost within, the music itself. That's what makes the song even have a possibility of being great. The emotional connection. Because if you don't have that, I don't think you really have a song.

  The-Dream

  Song, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Interesting, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I don't remember things initially when listening to music. Like, I don't remember where I first heard a song, I don't have nostalgic attachment to a song in that it reminds me of such and such a time or place. I think I probably did experience that somewhat when I was not a full-time, professional musician, but I don't think music works that way for people who are in it constantly.

  Stephin Merritt

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.

  Sean Penn

  Stupid, Mean, Self

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

  Edward Gibbon

  Favors, Lasts, Persuasion

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1838). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.154

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• If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Real, Degrees

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• ‎Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. If you feed, if you nourish attachment, love will be destroyed; If you feed and nourish love, attachment will fall away by itself. They are not one; they are two separate entities, and antagonistic to each other.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Ideas, Two

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• The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Parent, Psychological, Partners

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.130, Basic Books

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• Intrapreneurs work and lead with the Producer mindset. They run their department, team, or company with an abundance mentality, an attachment to true principles, and a fearless and informed faith in people and quality.

  Oliver DeMille

  Running, Team, People

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• The greatest achievement is selflessness.
  The greatest worth is self-mastery.
  The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
  The greatest precept is continual awareness.
  The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
  The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
  The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
  The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
  The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
  The greatest patience is humility.
  The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
  The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
  The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

  Atisa

  Letting Go, Humility, Passion

  "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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• Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.

  Peter Merry

  Including

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• The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

  Adi Shankara

  Dream, Real, World

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• If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

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  Ram Dass

  Giving Up, Clients, Roles

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• And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Past, Ideas, Done

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• Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

  Paul Auster

  New York, Cities, Special

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.

  Elia Suleiman

  Ideas, Soul, Want

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• All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Desire, Conventions, Pushed Away

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Character, Kids

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• My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

  Jay-Z

  Running, Emotional, Romance

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• No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

  Steven Knight

  Made, Screenplays

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at times, especially when there are unmet needs. It's part of our nervous system to hold on to where we think those needs will be met.

  Tara Brach

  Thinking, Needs, Nervous

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, Virtue, One Woman

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.16, eKitap Projesi

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• Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

  Kevin Griffin

  Letting Go, Doe, Want

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• The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.

  Simon Critchley

  Father, Successful, Divine Wisdom

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• Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hard Work, Ambition, Law

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