The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.
I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.
The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.
According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.
I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
There is all this controversy that women and girls are too skinny or too overweight. I say to just do martial arts and everything will be okay. You will tone up your body and find a confidence you can't find just sitting around watching TV and hanging out with friends.
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.
When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.
Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.
A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.