Contemplating Quotes - Page 4

• Vaya, señor -dijo mirando a su alrededor-, qué esplendor veo: encajes de oro, calzones, sombreros ladeados. Permítame recomendarle un bocadillo. ¿Y estaría pensando en atacar?" "Se me había pasado por la cabeza, debo admitirlo", dijo Jack. "De hecho, me atrevería a decir que me temo que un conflicto es prácticamente inevitable. ¿Te has dado cuenta de que hemos despejado para la acción?

  Patrick O'Brian

  Mind, Gold, Sandwiches

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• Domina tu respiración, déjate llevar por la dicha, contempla lo sublime que hay en ti.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Self, Sublime

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• How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Loss, Simple, Emotional

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• Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Greatness, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Lying, Sleep, Other Cultures

  "Entrevista con Shakti Gawain sobre la transformación local y global". Entrevista en Lotus Guide, lotusguide.com. 6 de junio de 2012.

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• The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Majority, Ordinary

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.2, Booklassic

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• O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.

  Brigit de Kildare

  Jesus, Sadness, Passion

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• Ahora me confieso perteneciente a esa clase del país que contempla la esclavitud como un mal moral, social y político.

  Abraham Lincoln

  País, Clase, Maldad

  Abraham Lincoln Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates", p.193, University of Illinois Press.

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• I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow's new business leaders." --Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company

  Daniel H. Pink

  Running, Believe, Expression

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• El silencio emerge del sonido de la lluvia y se extiende en un crescendo de monotonía gris sobre la estrecha calle que contemplo. Duermo despierto, de pie junto a la ventana, apoyado en ella como contra todo. Busco en mí las sensaciones que siento ante estos hilos de agua que caen, oscuramente luminosos, que sobresalen de las fachadas mugrientas de los edificios y, sobre todo, de las ventanas abiertas. Y no sé lo que siento ni lo que quiero sentir. No sé qué pensar ni dónde estoy.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Lluvia, Otoño, Sueño

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). "El libro de la inquietud", p.63, Penguin UK

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• If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Si, Universo

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• The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Girl, May, Projects

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• To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, Ideas, Lasts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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• I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Regret, Kids, Clothes

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.306, Delacorte Press

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• Hay otra forma más sutil de perder la inocencia de la infancia: cuando el niño se contagia del deseo de convertirse en alguien. Contemplad la multitud de personas que se esfuerzan con todas sus fuerzas por llegar a ser, no lo que la Naturaleza quiso que fueran -músicos, cocineros, mecánicos, carpinteros, jardineros, inventores-, sino "alguien": llegar a tener éxito, ser famosos, poderosos; llegar a ser algo que no traiga tranquilidad y realización personal, sino autoglorificación y autoexpansión...

  Anthony de Mello

  Niños, Poder, Ambición

  Anthony De Mello (2011). "El camino hacia el amor: Meditaciones para la vida", p.73, Imagen

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• If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.

  Laini Taylor

  Sleep, Lovely, Doe

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• He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

  Steven Erikson

  Suicide, Men, Dragons

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• So many hours must I take my rest;
  So many hours must I contemplate.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hours

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

  Sterling Hayden

  Mean, Sea, Play

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

  Victor Hugo

  Paris, Sublime, Depth

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• Contemplar la tarea por delante no la haría más fácil ni el agua más cálida.

  J. K. Rowling

  Water, Tasks, Easier

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• I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Independent, Thinking, Levels

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.

  Naomi Novik

  Animal, Simple, Swings

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.390, Del Rey

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• We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

  Frederick Busch

  Beautiful, Sitting Still, Worry

  Fuente: www.identitytheory.com

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• We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Past, Giving

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