We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases,… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“When you engage with people, you build your own insight into what’s being discussed. Someone else’s understanding complements yours, and together you… — Marcia Conner Copy Share Image
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law! — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful.… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves.They say: All that is worthlessand want to create no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an… — John Maus Copy Share Image
I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image