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Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections -- Ryuho Okawa
Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it. -- Matt Groening
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.' -- Beth Broderick
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents. -- George Eliot
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. -- Quintilian
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. -- Ambrose Bierce
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. -- Vernon Howard
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine. -- George S. Kaufman
I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society. -- Tim Hardaway
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about. -- Milla Jovovich
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. -- Glenn Close
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. -- William Winwood Reade
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones. -- Desmond Morris
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. -- Bertrand Russell
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it. -- John Piper
This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened. -- Ziggy Marley
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen. -- William Pollard
I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships. -- Jodie Foster
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction. -- Simon Greenleaf
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. -- Grover Norquist
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. -- Frank Church
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories. -- Seth Shostak
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. -- Sarah Parcak
Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy. -- Tom Hodgkinson
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.' -- Bill Cosby
Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past. -- Nelson Mandela
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. -- Trent Reznor
We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I'm totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that he should have been put on trial and exposed as that human being he was. I think he should've been standing mentally naked in front of the rest of us and stand to justice for what he did. -- Niels Arden Oplev
The unlived life isn't worth examining. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
The unlived life is not worth examining. -- Old Tom Morris
Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch? -- Wilhelm Steinitz
I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music. -- Daryl Hall
People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives. -- Rod Blackhurst
No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on. -- Charlie Munger
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. -- C. S. Lewis
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen. -- Samantha Power
This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from. -- Katharine Weber
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. -- Oscar Wilde
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. -- Richard Russo
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. -- William James Mayo
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. -- Pierre Bonnard
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within. -- Kevin Henkes
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it. -- Samuel Richardson
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! -- Adam Leipzig
If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations. -- Karl Albrecht
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. -- Rudolf Carnap
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves. -- William Barclay
As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send? -- Chris Kluwe
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. -- Dan Millman
No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. -- Haruki Murakami
By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven. -- Mencius
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. -- Stephen Covey
Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue. -- Stefan Molyneux
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. -- Anne Tyler
Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue. -- Stefan Molyneux
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? -- Francis Arthur Freeth
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. -- Marina Abramovic
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. -- Jen Knox
We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving. -- Jay Woodman
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses... -- Randy Hamilton
But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. -- Clive Barker
By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. -- Justin Martyr
After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate. -- Vin Weber
To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us. -- Allan Lokos
We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now. -- David Richo
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. -- Oliver Sacks
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Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip. -- Thubten Yeshe
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. -- Thomas Jefferson
After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things. -- Linda Cardellini
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture. -- Jennifer Echols
I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university. -- Dean Spade
He shook his head, examining the wound againIt's frostbitten," he mutteredIt'll blister, but you should be fine. You might only lose a couple fingers."-Ash" -- Julie Kagawa
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. -- Robert Trout
Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware. -- Daniel Handler
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. -- Gene Tierney
A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied. -- Allan Pease
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses. -- Mary Antin
Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula. -- Denis Leary
Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us. -- Bruce Lee
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false. -- Bertrand Russell
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer. -- James Franco
Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly. -- Damian Lewis
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. -- J. J. Abrams
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides. -- Henry Fielding
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically. -- Jane Jacobs
If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing. -- Ram Dass
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining. -- Benjamin Barber
Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress. -- Dale Carnegie
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their "common sense" told them was impossible. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks. -- Michael Pitt
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot. -- Ron Wyden
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present. -- A. A. Gill
My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer. -- Tamara Ecclestone
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose. -- Thomas a Kempis
All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another. -- Alexander Kotov
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After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. -- Lion Feuchtwanger
Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle. -- J. K. Rowling
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. -- James Madison
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth. -- Plato
We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes. -- Hunter Tylo
The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty. -- Mark Driscoll
I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny. -- Christopher Phillips
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?[Acerbic comment about directors of Brunner Mond, where he worked.] -- Francis Arthur Freeth
The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing. -- George Ratliff
When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life. -- Sarah MacLean
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. -- William Winwood Reade
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster. -- Carl Sagan
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are. -- Joan Robinson
If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it. -- Roger Babson
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. -- Michael Eric Dyson
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go. -- Black Francis
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go. -- Black Francis
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. -- Ann Beattie

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