Book Quote by Carol Tavris

“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

— John Dewey

What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are…

— Judith Martin

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

— Marjane Satrapi

Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose…

— Charlotte Mason

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

— Hank Azaria

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

— Henry Seidel Canby

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

— Gary Hamel

“A transcription doesn’t so much repeat words as contextualize and historicize them, uniting them with the time, place, and source of their utterance. A…

— William Flesch

What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick…

— Cynthia Ozick

But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of…

— George Steiner

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose…

— Charlotte Mason

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Gerard Manley Hopkins somewhere describes how he mesmerized a duck by drawing a line of chalk out in front of it. Think of me…

— Nicholson Baker