Disturbance Quotes
139 quotes by 125 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
— Vernon Howard
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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
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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
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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
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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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