Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Together
  • Positive
  • Vote

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Opportunity
  • Understanding
  • Everyday

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Work
  • Women
  • See

• I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • School
  • Positive
  • Theatre

• It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I was just amazed by it. I just said, 'Hey Mom, can I do this too?' And so she signed me up for little theater classes, and I remember my first audition for a play when I was seven years old was for 'The Thankful Elf.'

  

  Dana Davis
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Hate
  • Flying

• A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Chance

• I am Nicki Minaj, I mack them dudes up Back coupes up & chunk the deuce up

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Bragging
  • Flirty

• Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Positive
  • Depression
  • Anxiety