To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The joy in what I do is mostly creativity. I think creativity is an ecstatic impulse that we all have. And there's… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality. — Mark Ryan Copy Share Image
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for… — John Kador Copy Share Image
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like,… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end, Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image