“Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
“The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“The whole world itself is going through a unique kind of neurosis, which was not there in the past. This is simply… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And,… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness:… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
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