Fritz Perls Quotes

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

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• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Government

• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Quality
  • Nothing
  • Replace

• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Science
  • Church
  • Pretend

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Humility
  • Where

• The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Day

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• ...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tree

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Good
  • War

• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Success
  • Deep

• Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.

  

  Margaret Atwood

• In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

  

  Dawn Steel

• I never know how much of what I say is true.

  

  Bette Midler
  • True

• I didn't need tempting back to the theatre. It's always been something I'd wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what's in front of you or what's offered.

  

  Andrew Gower
  • Job
  • Theatre

• To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosophy
  • Resisting
  • Untruth

• God, it would never go away, this anger, this rage that was like the ceaseless movement of the spring winds through the desert, this knot in his guts, this splinter in his heart that shot a pain through him that eventually found its way into his lungs, then out of his mouth and into the open air, the sound making the whole world turn away from him. It would never go away, never, never, and there would never be any peace. Maybe he had it all wrong, maybe he wasn't a victim at all, not at all, because he had decided that this was the only thing that would ever be truly his, and so he clung to it, would cling to it forever.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Heart
  • Forever

• Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • World

• Create a story of which you will be proud.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Proud
  • Story
  • Create

• There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • People
  • Exist
  • Spots

• A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Desert