17 quotes found
“To the immature, other people are not real.”
“The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.”
“To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.”
“If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare”
“I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means where...”
“When Mother and I learned that Father was dying, Father asked me to sing for him," she said. "Mother insisted that I only sing songs from their youthful days together. She wanted me to take her min...”
“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight...”
“I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drum...”
“Different is the salesman who shows respect for our intelligence, who tries to get us to express exactly what we ourselves wish, who listens to us as effectively as he talks to us, above all, who i...”
“No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the indivi...”
“Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.”
“Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.”
“Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.”
“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.”
