"If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist."

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Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

Geneen Roth

#Attention Quotes #Body Quotes #Want Quotes

“Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.”
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
“No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.”
“Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!”

Source : "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.
“I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.”
“While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.”
“If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.”
“Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.”

Source : "Nancy Meyers: The rom-com queen". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.independent.co.uk. January 9, 2010.

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