Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And the body actually has a natural function, after about the third day to start catching up and you get a little bit more sleep the third night. And that's usually what I tell my patients.
My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.
Rock and roll is catching on all over. . . France. . . England. . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.
I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them. " However, that one's having a rough time catching on.
He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.
There is nothing so catching as refinement.
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.