Marion Milner Quotes

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Model

• When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Dream

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Man
  • Effort

• I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Power
  • Doing
  • Deserve

• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Writing
  • Emotion
  • Curiosity

• At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Knowledge
  • Change
  • Simple

• Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Careful

• I love the French horn.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Love
  • I Love
  • French

• Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Notes
  • Photographs

• Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Focus

• My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

  

  Carly Simon
  • Mother
  • Father

• No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, … and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour’s blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Blue

• Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • World
  • Growth
  • Finance

• With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Food
  • Growth

• We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Understanding
  • Growth
  • Straight