Happenings Quotes - Page 7

The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.

Larry Rosenberg

Weekend, Practice, Pay

Larry Rosenberg (2004). “Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

Desmond Dekker

Song, Writing, Talking

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

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In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

Bill Dixon

New York, Painting, Middle

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Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

Louis Stokes

Dangerous Situations, People, Records

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No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

David Jenkins

Swag, Ordinary, Language

The Guardian, December 24, 1984.

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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

William Torrey Harris

Humble, School, Thinking

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Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has nothing to do with the present moment itself. If you were to suddenly die the present moment would remain. The problem occurs when we attach in our minds with what is happening to "us" presently. This is simply a mental construct that we have created ourselves. It is much like a grievance, either real or imagined. If we attach to grievances we are constantly inflicting suffering on ourselves, not the other party.

Stephen Weiss

Real, Party, People

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There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.

Sonia Sotomayor

Technology, Thinking, Air

"Sotomayor: Americans Should be Alarmed by Spread of Drones" by Jacob Gershman, www.politico.com. September 12, 2014.

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Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!

Marianne Williamson

Heart, Positive Thinking, Eye

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The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'

Yamaoka Tesshu

Truth, Believe, Mind

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We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Summer, Gratitude, Disappointment

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Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

Rick Warren

Faith, Christian, Dream

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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Kenneth Tynan

Theatre, Connections, World

"Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 09, 1966.

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There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

John Wain

Artist, Theatre, Fables

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You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.

Heinrich Himmler

Hate, Responsibility, Men

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Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples. If a grandmaster is commenting on one of his own games, then there is usually not any problem: his general thoughts are closely tied up with what is happening on the board. But as soon as he starts writing an article or book on a different theme the difficulties begin, as he may not have suitable material to hand.

Mark Dvoretsky

Book, Writing, Ideas

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Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!

Andy Rooney

Inspiring, Things In Life, One Day At A Time

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The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.

Brian Urquhart

Money, Believe, World Government

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Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

Eckhart Tolle

Growth, Surrender, Asks

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.70, New World Library

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Hence there are so many kinds of love and so many kinds of compassion. But the basic, the most fundamental, is to understand this three-rung ladder of love. That will help you, that will give you an insight into where you are, what kind of love you are living in and what kind of compassion is happening to you. Watch. Beware not to remain caught in it. There are higher realms, heights to be climbed, peaks to be attained.

Rajneesh

Relationship, Love You, Compassion

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In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.

Seymour Hersh

Baby, Army, Iraq

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Every happening is a lesson, a message.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Inspirational, Lessons, Messages

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There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Cutting, People, Demand

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I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

Susan Estrich

Years, Issues, Speech

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In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

Nicholas Ray

Opposites, Theatre, Twenties

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