Ben Decker Quotes

Mindfulness meditation practice will help you discern which thoughts support your goals and well-being and which thoughts are destructive or unhealthy and should be discarded. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

As the grounding effect of breath awareness disengages you from the often-overwhelming chatter of the mind, the level at which you think will seem to transcend the noise. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

Mindfulness practice can teach us about the nature of thinking, and perhaps even more importantly, it can teach us that we are not our thoughts. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

Count on your beginner's mind to help you through any times when you might feel resistant or self-conscious about your practice. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

With a beginner's mind, we can all become more fluid in our understanding and thereby pave the way for a more fulfilling and balanced future. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

Sitting for meditation is the classic technique for a reason: Being physically still can help you still your mind. ~ Benjamin W. Decker

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family. ~ Ben Bernanke

One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria. ~ Ben Shapiro

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books. ~ Ben Schott

Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result. ~ Ben Affleck

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. ~ Ben Hogan

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years. ~ Ben Bernanke

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place ~ Ben Richards

At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch. ~ Ben Thompson

I'm serious," I say. "I don't want to lose him."
"Then maybe you should go away for a little bit. After all, absence makes the heart grow horny, right?"
"That's not exactly how the saying goes."
"But it should, because you know it's true. If you go away for a couple of days, Ben won't know what to do with himself."
"Maybe you're right," I say, tossing more candy corn into my mouth (therapy in a bag).
"Damn straight, I am. Now, the biggest question: Can I fit into your suitcase? Because I really don't feel like staying here by myself. ~ Laurie Faria Stolarz

On the green lawn, Ben led a choir of students in singing "Be Our Guest" as a way to kick off the event. A student banner read FAMILY DAY! GOODNESS DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER. Some students and their families danced, while others enjoyed plates of every type of delicious food imaginable from various tables and tents. ~ Walt Disney Company

Nothing is a cliche when you're living it. ~ Ben Lerner

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system. ~ Robert Ben Garant

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself. ~ Ben Hecht

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~ Ben Stein

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~ David Ben-Gurion

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with. ~ Ben Carson

Nothing is more difficult than knowing what you really think. ~ Ben Okri

I want to thank my wife who I don't normally usually associate with Iran. I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It's good. It is work, but it's the best kind of work, and there's no one I'd rather work with! ~ Ben Affleck

Where's Ben?" she asked after another painful swallow. The angle of the light in the room signaled morning. She'd survived the first horrible night of the illness. That was something for which to be grateful. "He didn't want to go. But your mama kicked him out yesterday." Phoebe bounded to the hearth fire and removed another pot of steaming water she had dangling from a gridiron that belonged to the kitchen. Susanna fought a wave of dizziness and frustration. "But don't you worry none." Phoebe returned to the bedside with the steaming pot, the scent of sassafras and rum drifting under the canopy of her bed. "It's gonna take a pack of wolves to keep that man from coming back to see you. ~ Jody Hedlund

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was. ~ Ben Stein

The dead shook off their rust of living and seized up steel. Their lips quivered with the defiance of innocents, with manipulations of politicians and their interchangeable dreams, and with the insanity of thugs who don't even know for which parties they commit their atrocities. ~ Ben Okri

Why would a young man like you be interested in history?"
"So I can avoid repeating it."
"Then stay away from men who talk about the fatherland," he said. "That's my advice. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

Achieve your dreams by calling them goals instead. ~ Ben Tolosa

Britain might be in the grip of rationing, but buying the materials for a homemade bomb was a piece of cake. (In fact, obtaining the ingredients for a decent cake would have been rather harder.) ~ Ben Macintyre

If We Can't Find Love In Our Hearts To Help All In Humanity ... Then At least Find the Empathy To Stop Keep On Hurting Them! ~ Timothy Pina

When we have made an experience or a chaos into a story we have transformed it, made sense of it, transmuted experience, domesticated the chaos. ~ Ben Okri

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away. ~ Ben Fountain

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was. ~ Ben Kingsley

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone. ~ Ben Harper

Ben Says: Live your life helping to inspire others and you will never regret it
Bullying Ben ~ Timothy Pina

Life is not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between. ~ Ben Rector

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility. ~ Ben Horowitz

The attempt [by the far-left] to boil down fascism to 'anything I don't like' is simply idiotic. Which is more fascist: Christina Hoff Sommers coming to speak about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force?
That seems a little more fascist to me. ~ Ben Shapiro

So it was that my life passed from the joyous realm of heaven to the choking and inescapable tortures of hell. ~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about. ~ Ben Stiller