Kurt Lewin Quotes

The valence of an object usually derives from the fact that the object is a means to the satisfaction of a need, or has indirectly something to do with the satisfaction of a need.

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• Racism is a physical experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Experience
  • Racism
  • Physical

• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • You
  • Fly

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Law
  • Police
  • Gun

• People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Intellectual

• I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Up
  • Think
  • Age

• Personally, I know how challenging it can be to find free time in today's uber-busy, espresso-chugging world to tend to our spirits, to nourish our souls.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • American
  • Question

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • World
  • Men
  • Business

• A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Lost
  • Will
  • Battle

• If we introduce iron complexly into ooporphyrin, we obtain haemin.

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Iron
  • Introduce
  • Obtain

• You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • You
  • Opinion

• I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Job
  • War
  • Thought

• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moral

• But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • American
  • America

• He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Selfish

• If direct responsibility for Vietnam rests with the United States, in the Middle East direct responsibility rests not with the United States but with the Soviet Union (and with Britain in 1948 and 1956).

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Responsibility

• Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Powerful
  • Birth
  • Weak

• There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Ignorance
  • Test
  • Proverb

• There was the chance that someday he would surprise her, that she would turn to face her husband and find a stranger in his place, a stranger who didn't approve of her and didn't want her in his life anymore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • She
  • Husband

• I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Heart
  • Waiting
  • Lying

• The valence of an object usually derives from the fact that the object is a means to the satisfaction of a need, or has indirectly something to do with the satisfaction of a need.

  

  Kurt Lewin