Larry Dossey Quotes

Prayer is an attitude of the heart. ~ Larry Dossey

[Some scientific] experiments ... tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality ... ... ... true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind. ~ Larry Dossey

People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus - what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside. ~ Larry Dossey

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it. ~ Larry Dossey

I believe the vital ingredient is love - a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended. ~ Larry Dossey

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure. ~ Larry Dossey

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past. ~ Larry Dossey

The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this ancient concept, and in so doing helps bridge the worlds of modern science and spirituality, which is one of the most urgent tasks of our time. ~ Larry Dossey

Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature. ~ Larry Dossey

New Self, New World is an extraordinary work - an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world's great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have experienced them. This book is about achieving the highest dimensions of which humans are capable. Highly recommended. ~ Larry Dossey

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives. ~ Larry Dossey

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility. ~ Larry Dossey

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. ~ Larry Wall

I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field. ~ Larry Gelwix

could put no weight on the wounded ankle at ~ Larry McMurtry

It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added ~ Larry McMurtry

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on. ~ Larry Page

The Christian always has reason to celebrate. When we fail, celebrate His grace. When we are blessed, celebrate His mercy. When others reject us, celebrate His love. ~ Larry Crabb

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. ~ Larry Wall

Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don't find that interesting. We should be building great things that don't exist. Being negative is not how we make progress. ~ Larry Page

though his day-to-day responsibilities had constantly shrunk over the last ten years, life did not seem easier. It just seemed smaller and a good deal more dull. Call ~ Larry McMurtry

A chain of follies had put him there: Call's abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked. ~ Larry McMurtry

The hammer has fallen. ~ Larry Niven

That boy," he said. "I've done him ever favor I could. Some folks you can't do nothing with. Just sorry. God knows I've done plenty of drinking and stuff in my time, but I be damn if I ever tried to cheat anybody out of any money. ~ Larry Brown

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard. ~ Larry Cohen

Kleenex would have made a mint today. ~ Larry Harvey

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me.
I looked at it. "A. GUY."
He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry. ~ Elizabeth Scott

When hope is busy dying, you should run and you should hide. But whatever you do, don't pray for hope. ~ Larry Finhouse

Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil." ~ Larry Brilliant

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance. ~ Larry Moss

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh. ~ Larry David

When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time. ~ Larry Fitzgerald

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park. ~ Larry The Cable Guy

(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom. ~ Larry Craig

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes. ~ Larry Wall

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes. ~ Larry Bird

I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." Call ~ Larry McMurtry

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, "What is that junk?" Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling. ~ Larry Bird

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. ~ Larry Constantine

Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. ~ Larry Wall

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player. ~ Larry Bird

But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it. ~ Larry Elder

Then think of fire, It's laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a house almost as if to -mistakenly- rescue someone who left you years ago. It is so American, fire. So like us. It's desolation. And it's eventual, brief triumph. ~ Larry Levis

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece. ~ Stephen Harrigan

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. ~ Larry Wall

I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already. ~ Larry Brown

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment. ~ Larry Flynt

The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself. ~ Larry Wall

The 101st was trucked to Utah Beach on July 10, seeing from the land what they had seen from the air the night of June 5: hundreds of ships sitting off shore as far as the eye could see. Smaller boats, LSTs, LCMs and other craft carrying men and supplies plied the waters between the ships and the sand. "It took your breath away," he recalled. Winters saw something else he had not seen for more than a month, a sight that literally brought tears to his eyes: the American flag. In 2003, the memory still left him choked up. "I didn't realize how much the American flag meant to me," he said. ~ Larry Alexander