Waking Quotes - Page 12

• Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, Iowa, People

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• I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

  Nick Denton

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I have a very beautiful life with great friends and I look forward to waking up every day. Every day is a vacation but every day is a workday. I don't want to take vacations because music is my life and if I escape from music, that's the same thing as death. So a vacation is death to me. Sitting on the beach for a week is my idea of hell. That would kill me.

  John Zorn

  Beautiful, Beach, Vacation

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

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• It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

  Bo Bice

  Stars, Practice, Trying

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• Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

  Donna Farhi

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.5, Macmillan

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• I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

  Avril Lavigne

  Wake Up, Tvs, Guides

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• The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Average, Two, Long

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health.

  Jordi Molla

  Wake Up, Garlic, Bread

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• The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.

  Sarada Devi

  Dream, Night, Doe

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, Moon

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the reality that is not words , that lies beyond the reach of words. If you are fortunate enough to be Awakened thus, you will know why the finest language is the one that is not spoken, the finest action is the one that is not done and the finest change is the one that is not willed.

  Anthony de Mello

  Lying, Believe, Mean

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.3, Image

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• It's all authentic. It's a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

  Diana Nyad

  Mom, Dream, Moving

  "CNN Live Event/Special" with Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2013.

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• The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Perfect, Possibility

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.18, FV Éditions

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• No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.

  Ringo Starr

  Tired, Doors, Alcohol

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• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dream, People, Vices

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• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  Sam Neill

  Father, Years, Relief

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• The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Greatness, Odds

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 21), 1951.

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• May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Father, Dark

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• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Blessed, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

  Srikumar Rao

  Knowing, Giving, Wake Up

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• I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.

  Will Smith

  Morning, Creating, Hustle

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Differences, Perception

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• Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Life, Philosophy, Self

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• Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding hill tracks. Songs were sung about him to the cattle and both songs and tales had become even stranger since his supposed death when he vanished through the wind and the night over a great cliff. Tales kept cropping up of a ghost horse seen, or imagined, roaming over the mountains at night, of stockmen waking in a hut at midnight, hearing the tremendous stallion’s cry which could only be Thowra’s

  Elyne Mitchell

  Song, Horse, Night

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• Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.

  Sara Suleri

  Morning, Art, Expression

  Sara Suleri (2018). “Meatless Days”, p.89, Penguin UK

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