Attending Quotes

• I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

  John Burroughs

  Museums, Funeral, Feelings

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies”

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• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, School, Talking

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• I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Giving, Funeral, May

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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Government, Political

  Letter to Archibald Stewart, 23 Dec. 1791

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• By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

  Michael N. Castle

  Appreciation, School, Climbing

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• There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Spiritual, Real, Blessing

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• One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Funny Food, Breakfast, End Of The World

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• Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.

  Tim Ryan

  Stress, Past, Space

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

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  The real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Real, Thinking, Guy

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.

  Ally Carter

  Team, School, Lacrosse

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

  Meher Baba

  Life, Purpose, Done

  Meher Baba, A. C. S. Chari (1969). “84 Questions & Answers on Avatar Meher Baba”

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• If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehumanize him or her. If we take the view that every human being has some good in them, even if it is only 0.1 percent of their makeup, then by focusing on their good part, we humanize them. By acknowledging and attending to and rewarding their good part, we allow it to grow, like a small flower in a desert.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Flower, Makeup, Views

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• My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Mother, Art, School

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• Attending ComicCon for 'Arrow' was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good.

  Katie Cassidy

  Fun, Arrows, Fans

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

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• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  Saffron Burrows

  Hands, Years, Nuts

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• One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

  Michel de Certeau

  Communism, Demonstration, Used

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Peace comes from living a measured life. Peace comes from attending to every part of my world in a sacramental way. My relationships are not what I do when I have time left over from my work. . . . Reading is not something I do when life calms down. Prayer is not something I do when I feel like it. They are all channels of hope and growth for me. They must all be given their due.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Peace, Prayer, Reading

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• A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.

  Israel Shenker

  Religious, Husband, Party

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Pride

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• Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

  Patricia Briggs

  Book, Writing, Fiction

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• It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

  Tippi Hedren

  Lying, Animal, Circus

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• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Years, Listening

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• Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

  Tom Brokaw

  Real, Thinking, Names

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Nice, Writing, Isolation

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• In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, East, Mixtures

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