“One day reach idealization; after all, it's the journey, not the destination.” — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea. — Dustin Moskovitz Copy Share Image
“When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them… — Margaret Campbell Barnes Copy Share Image
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness. — Michael Warner Copy Share Image
Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
“Frequently avoidance of the present leads to idealization of the future... When an event does not live up to your expectations you… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“... nothing is easier than to distance ourselves from great figures, whether through a negative interpretation or through idealization. Denigration and idealization… — Myron Sharaf Copy Share Image
“Idealization is a double-edged sword. It feels wonderful and flattering, but it also blinds a woman to the fact that she's doomed… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“I have not seen Bly since the day I left it, and I daresay that to my older and more informed eyes… — Henry James Copy Share Image