139 quotes found
“Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth.”
“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
“The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.”
“That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.”
“Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I laug...”
“Problems dont actually exist. Theyre just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.”
“Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now stu...”
“It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.”
“He treats the person as if they were fully whole.We become what others expect us to be. Dad expected me to get better and even assumed I would have something helpful to say. Funny how we rise and f...”
“You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.”
“Youre going to listen to me, and for once youre going to hear what I say and not read between lines that arent there.”
“Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.”
“True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.”
“Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.”
“Sometimes a persons first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.”
“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every ne...”
“You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.”
“A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a h...”
“I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Hum...”
