"I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports……" — Jonathan Gottschall
"I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them."
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31 Quotes by Jonathan Gottschall
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We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all…
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I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's…
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The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
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Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we…
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We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once…
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Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence.…
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In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all…
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Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I…
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What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick…
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It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym.…
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Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The…
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Fighting is really, really rewarding. I truly enjoyed it. I got feelings from fighting that were bigger than those I…
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More Ambivalence Quotes
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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with…
— Tony Campolo
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
— David Seabury
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
— Adrienne Rich
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows…
— Paul de Man
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Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the…
— Judith Levine
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill…
— Winston Churchill
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the…
— Luce Irigaray
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set…
— Erma Bombeck
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Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space…
— Joan Mitchell
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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this…
— John Scott
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel de Certeau
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