Influence Quote by Adam Phillips Download Open image “The past influences everything and dictates nothing.” — Adam Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Influence Past Time
the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered. — Laura Anne Gilman Copy Share Image
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what… — Gerald W. Johnson Copy Share Image
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
Everything has a past. Everything a person, an object, a word, everything. If u dont know the past, u cant understand the present and… — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
“Writers as diverse as Wordsworth and Freud, as Blake and Dickens have all hypothesized that the turbulence and intensity we feel as young children… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.” — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Finding hate-objects may be every bit as essential as finding love-objects, but if one can tolerate some of one's badness -- meaning recognize it… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else. — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
Life is not about how much you have but how much you have affect others life positively. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
