372 quotes found
“We now expect more from technology and less from each other.”
“They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...”
“Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts a...”
“Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.”
“People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.”
“Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.”
“If you let others influence you, they will also let you influence them. But if you're only trying to teach them something, and put your ideas into people's brains, you will never succeed.”
“You decide that, rather than trying to talk out of the fixed mindset [to your kid], you have to live the growth mindset, you have to live the growth mindset. AT the dinner table each evening, you a...”
“But there also seems to be in our culture a curious cautiousnessYoull get these abundant gratifications only if you dont feel too much, dont let on you want too much. The result is that, instead of...”
“It is only when you meet someoneof a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your ownbeliefs really are.”
“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.”
“The relationship between these four attitudesobjectivity, immediacy, subjectivity, and reflexionis worth consideration. At first sight it might seem that there is no difference between immediacy an...”
“To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted to him and that he has no obligations. The young child exposed to this regime has no experience of...”
“Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.”
“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.”
“we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.”
“And our madness-measure is always changing. Probably we are less tolerant of madness now than at any period in history. There is no place for it. Crucially, there is no time for it.Going mad takes ...”
“Once you talk to your brain and emotions, thus how is going to respond.”
“No one will recognize you unless you had done a thing.”
“One reason for this polarisation is that, as a group, people can come up with a bigger set of persuasive arguments in support of the biased options: because everyone favours leaving the job, everyo...”
