Abstract Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

“One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“...they had succumbed to an impersonal and anonymous mode of consciousness which precluded personal feeling and which was devoid of a secure sense of…

— Patrick Gardiner

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in…

— Ayad Akhtar

During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain…

— Michel Foucault

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

— Karrine Steffans

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex…

— Hattie Morahan

After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself.

— Neil Diamond

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with…

— George Stigler

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the…

— Barack Obama