Fritz Perls Quotes
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.Fritz Perls
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne -
You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
Padma Lakshmi -
I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
Harold Ramis -
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
Mahershala Ali -
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust -
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I believe in aging gracefully.
Tatjana Patitz -
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
Dale Murphy -
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden -
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
Harry Caray -
I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Natasha Lyonne -
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
Pat Summitt -
I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
Latrell Sprewell -
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman
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In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.
Marillyn Hewson -
'Take me home,' Snow White said. 'Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.'
Donald Barthelme -
I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
Earl Campbell -
My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.
Jesmyn Ward -
The three horizontal bands at the top in his collage: landscape with paintings 1954 correspond to sea, sand and sky, while the yellow/white and red/white shapes at the bottom are the paintings – though of a kind I actually painted only later. It was the collage that suggested the idea of doing such paintings.
Ellsworth Kelly -
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
Fritz Perls