Discovery Quote by Adam Phillips Download Open image “To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.” — Adam Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Equality Growing up Grows
When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. — Francesco Totti Copy Share Image
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Growing up involves making a lot of mistakes and learning from them, but also involves no regrets and having a great time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mysterious though it is, the choice to actually learn as an adult and devote one's will consciously to growth and learning is the most… — M Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up. — Howard Fast Copy Share Image
The good thing about growing up is that you discover yourself. You get to know what you need and what you don't need. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up. — Kay Panabaker Copy Share Image
Growing up means knowing which matters and which doesn't, having priorities and being able to face the consequences of your actions. — Monica Copy Share Image
I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
Growing up means nothing, it just means your closer to your death. Now what you learn while growing up, makes that process worth while. — Alex Cole 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 not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never… — Adam Phillips Copy Share
“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 have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather… — Adam Phillips Copy Share
“So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it is the point and not the problem; in which the project is to learn how not to ride the bicycle, how not to understand the poem. Or to put it the other way round, this would… — Adam Phillips Copy Share
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
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum in Concepción, Chile. These skulls were originally discovered on Isla Mocha, which is located 25 miles off the south-central coast of Chile. Since some of them have definite telltale signs of being Polynesian, the strong suggestion… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share
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