"Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings."
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104 Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison has 104 quotes on this site.
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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are…
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I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse.…
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high…
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When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from…
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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about…
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I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course…
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the…
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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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More Aesthetics Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes…
— Peter Vidmar
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and…
— Albert Einstein
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative…
— Edwin Land
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
— Barnett Newman
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An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful…
— Tim Benton
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust…
— Werner Herzog
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science…
— Louis Althusser
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I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because…
— Sally Mann
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