Quotes by Dan Harris

“He wanted to run track last year I think. When he came back to school about six weeks after the accident, he would talk about running. I told him to just take it slow.”

“When he gets his muscle back, he will be fine. He is really a great kid. Most people wouldnt do what he is doing, coming back so soon, but he really wants to get back to normal, back to his normal life.”

“Its an insult to us that he would be allowed to drive again,”

“[After Dan Harris left his job at WCSH-TV in Portland, Maine, he had some trouble on the job market.] Nobody wants me because I look like Im seven, ... I couldnt get a job.”

“When ABC called me, I was literally shocked,”

“[The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop strengths I didnt know I had largely through Peter. [He] let me write the way I wanted to write, allowed me to develop a bit of a voice.”

“He was great in the leadership field. He understood the game early on. It was so impressive. He was always thinking about the game. It was just obvious during his playing days what he was destined to do.”

“His dad was a real confidant. He was a real Rock of Gibraltar. I think part of their conversation was (the bar) could be his destiny. But he was devoted to football. He has a passion for it. Im glad he stuck with it.”

“It is likely the force of the blast disabled both cameras. You cannot hear or see anything else on either tape.”

“For individuals who qualify, they can get back $20,000 to $25,000.”

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.

...didnt need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

If you dont waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Turns out, its pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if youre able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

In fact, when youre mindful, you actually feel irritation more keenly. However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, its easier to stop getting carried away.

Dalai Lama: If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that.Dan Harris: So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?Dalai Lama: Oh yes. Yes.

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.