Disturbance Quotes

139 quotes by 125 authors

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. — Anatole Broyard
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the… — Alice Miller
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to… — John Hospers
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the… — Sun Tzu
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a… — George Perkins Marsh
Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm… — Dalai Lama
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the… — Sigmund Freud
Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are asleep as far… — Rajneesh
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
You must be a deeply anxiety-ridden person, otherwise chain-smoking is not possible; chain-smoking is a by-product. You must be so concerned about a thousand and… — Rajneesh
Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the state of no-mindedness. It doesn't… — Rajneesh
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the… — Sigmund Freud
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance. — Vernon Howard
The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial… — John Sparkman
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be… — Avicenna
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development. — Clifford Allbutt
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and… — Saul Bellow

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