Fritz Perls Quotes
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
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Perhaps the heart does not deceive; never does give a false answer, except to those double-minded unhappy ones who do care about themselves, and so play tricks with it and tamper with it.
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By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
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Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
