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Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.
Shunryu Suzuki
2.
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
Bryan Stevenson
Someone needs to rise when others remain seated. Someone needs to vocalize when others stay silent.
3.
The most important hour is always the present.
The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
The most necessary work is always love.
Meister Eckhart
The most essential hour is invariably the here and now. The most valuable individual is indisputably the person facing you at this very moment. The most imperative task is unequivocally compassion.
4.
Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.
Nas
Sojourning in tranquility is one of the most advantageous activities a man can undertake.
5.
The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.
Steve Harvey
The most prosperous people in this world understand that taking risks to attain their ambitions is more effective than remaining inactive out of fear.
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Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
Bill Gates
'Glance at the timepiece when you are inactive. But never glance at the timepiece when you are laboring.'
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The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
Michio Kaku
8.
It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.
Karl Pilkington
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
Malcolm X
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Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.
Drake
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You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.
Chogyam Trungpa
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
Verner Panton
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Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.
Oliver Sacks
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Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
Elizabeth Vargas
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The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Swami Vivekananda
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Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.
Lyndon LaRouche
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Enough.
These few words are enough
If not these few words, this breath
If not this breath, this sitting here
This opening to the life we have refused again and again
Until now
Until now.
David Whyte
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What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.
Fred Ebb
20.
Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is.
Pusha T
21.
They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.
Izabella Scorupco
22.
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
William Tyndale
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It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!
Edwin Lefevre
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Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.
Lisa Kleypas
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I know other astronauts share my feelings.... And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.
Gordon Cooper
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I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.
George C. Marshall
27.
I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?
J. K. Rowling
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My therapist says I'm afraid of success. I guess I could understand that, because after all, fulfilling my potential would REALLY cut into my sitting-around time
Maria Bamford
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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Dodie Smith
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Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.
Maya Angelou
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Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Richard Linklater
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I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.
Max Reger
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
Wendell Berry
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I bet you like sitting at red lights.
Jon Gruden
35.
We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
Steve Irwin
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Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
Elias Canetti
37.
I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
Joe Manganiello
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I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
Cate Blanchett
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If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
John Lasseter
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And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.
Sibel Edmonds
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I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!
Ashley Tisdale
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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.
Helen Dunmore
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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
Bess Myerson
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It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.
Vin Scully
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My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.
Hilary Swank
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Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, I’m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' That’s willingness all right. But God doesn’t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.
Jim Elliot
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
Sally Ride
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Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.
Tom Bunk
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The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.
Erich Hartmann
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When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.
Natasha Friend