Quotes About Cultivating

#1. Just before I look under my bed, I always get a little cold feeling, as if part of me expects to find something staring back at me.
I've probably seen too many Hollywood movies to have any hopes of ever cultivating a healthy relationship with the underside of my bed.

Graham Parke

#2. Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening.

A-Trak

#3. Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

Ken Cohen

#4. Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

Joel Salatin

#5. I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definitely the casual, spontaneous , unselfconscious conversational language.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

Andre Gide

#7. [...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]

Charles Stross

#8. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Sun Tzu

#9. Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques ...

Mas Oyama

#10. I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

Bob Dylan

#11. Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Jessica Mitford

#12. The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.

Dalai Lama XIV

#13. One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#14. Bitterness will make you sick. During [Madiba's] imprisonment they were forced to work in the limestone quarry. Chipping away for no reason. Bitterness is the same. You reduce your own character with such a mindless exercise of cultivating bitterness.

Zelda La Grange

#15. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines. Sleat gave a lazy

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today ... the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand - not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.

Deepak Chopra

#18. When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

Ken Jeong

#19. We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

Dalai Lama

#21. Advice to a Separated Couple - My brother, my sister, for some time you have not been living together. You should not have pursued this course and would not have done so if both of you had been cultivating the patience, kindness, and forbearance that should ever exist between husband and wife.

Ellen G. White

#22. Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

Katori Hall

#23. We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

George Washington

#24. I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

David Longstreth

#25. No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#26. By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

Jason Silva

#27. Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage.

Neil Clark Warren

#29. Claiming our birthright means living in beauty inwardly regardless of our outer circumstances. It means cultivating the qualities coded in our hearts.

Lori Cash Richards

#30. Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Patanjali

#31. All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

John C. Maxwell

#32. Oh yeah, you're a regular sage. Shouldn't you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?"
"Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?" he countered.

Jacquelyn Frank

#33. We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people loving us and by cultivating compassion for all humankind.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. Virtue is a step toward cultivating authentic beauty, for the love and grace that is within a woman is what truly shines through to make her radiant. Grace illuminates the exterior.

Jenessa Terraccino

#35. This book is about cultivating habits that let you become organized enough to get results for your students and to make your life more fun and less stressful.

Maia Heyck-Merlin

#36. When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.

Karen Abbott

#37. How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

Dalai Lama

#38. I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

Lynn Coady

#39. I did hate those people ... those false artists whose work consists of the poses they strike: saying outrageous things, cultivating complicated tastes and appetites, being artificial, irritating, unbearable. People who, in fact, take from art only what is false and external ...

Mario De Sa-Carneiro

#40. Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.

Bryant McGill

#41. Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.

Bud Harris

#42. I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Jeanette MacDonald

#43. This is how new habits are created: by putting together a cue, a routine, and a reward, and then cultivating a craving that drives the loop.

Charles Duhigg

#44. Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

Jane McGonigal

#45. The proof of salvation is not listening to the Word, or having a quick emotional response to the Word, or even cultivating the Word so that it grows in a life. The proof of salvation is fruit, for as Christ said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits" (Matt. 7:16).

Warren W. Wiersbe

#46. Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.

Chogyam Trungpa

#47. Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.

Orrin Woodward

#48. The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus

#49. Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own territory

Sunday Adelaja

#50. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,

Sharon Salzberg

#51. The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions.

Abhijit Naskar

#52. Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations
many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

Susan Jane Gilman

#53. Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Gail Sheehy

#54. Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess.

Pema Chodron

#55. Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Ronald Reagan

#56. But a half hour or an hour of quiet, restful solitary time during the day is restorative at any age, and a habit worth cultivating.

Kim John Payne

#57. If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice ... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world ...

Jane Fulton Alt

#58. In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

Sathya Sai Baba

#59. Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

Alan Bradley

#60. The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

Wendy Kopp

#61. It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

Orison Swett Marden

#62. Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Goldwin Smith

#63. We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

Parker J. Palmer

#64. Cultivating strong family bonds is a natural side effect of homeschooling as we pursue our interests, share chores and simply enjoy one another's company.

Laura Grace Weldon

#65. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.

Dalai Lama

#66. Before World War I, self-improvement meant being less self-involved, less vain: helping others, focusing on schoolwork, becoming better read, and cultivating empathy. Author

Peggy Orenstein

#67. Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#68. The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

Eric Hoffer

#69. A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

Alexander Hamilton

#70. We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

Tommy Hilfiger

#71. Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Michael Bennet

#72. By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

Isha Judd

#73. What is even more important than developing intuition is cultivating the sense of adventure and discovery in life.

Akemi G

#74. Charles Tavis knows what James Incandenza could not have cared about less: the key to the successful administration of a top-level junior tennis academy lies in cultivating a kind of reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry.

David Foster Wallace

#75. I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means may appear different, the ends are the same.

Dalai Lama

#76. Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Debbie Macomber

#77. Cultivating the mind was absolutely essential, Luther held, because people needed to understand both the word of Scripture and the nature of the world in which the word would take root.

Mark A. Noll

#78. There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.

Ian Astbury

#79. I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

George Washington

#80. In this culture, cultivating unconditional self-acceptance truly is radical.

Yancy Lael

#81. Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

Nelson Mandela

#82. Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.

Andrew Linzey

#83. Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

Douglas Carswell

#84. learn was the difference between having a dream and cultivating the courage to live it out day after day." Mable

Kristy Cambron

#85. As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

Steven Conrad

#86. Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

Nell Newman

#87. I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

Maurice Sendak

#88. By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

Aberjhani

#89. By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.

Thomas Starr King

#90. As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

Yolanda Adams

#91. Cultivating hope Practicing critical awareness Letting go of numbing and taking the edge off vulnerability, discomfort, and pain

Brene Brown

#92. If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

Pema Chodron

#93. For the path of comets/ is the path of poets: they burn without warming,/ pick without cultivating. They are: an explosion, a breaking in

Marina Tsvetaeva

#94. Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

Joshua Waitzkin

#95. As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well. That means that integrating and cultivating your own brain is one of the most loving and generous gifts you can give your children. Another

Daniel J. Siegel

#96. Our relationships will eventually grow stale unless we are diligent about directing and cultivating them.

Todd Henry

#97. If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.

Brene Brown

#98. Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

Ellen G. White

#99. Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

Austin Butler

#100. Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

Adrian Grenier