James Hillman Quotes

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

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• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Reflect

• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Actor

• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • House

• I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Never
  • Stage
  • Week

• I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Conventions
  • Fanatic
  • Star Trek

• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • More
  • Realize

• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Never
  • Sports
  • Win

• I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Know
  • City
  • Write

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• Most people don't know how to tell stories.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Know
  • Most

• I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.

  

  Adam Green
  • Found
  • Horror
  • Bit

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Why
  • She
  • History

• I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • May

• I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Up
  • May
  • Water

• I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Broken

• 'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Done

• Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled-he did not fall- Impaled him on her fiercest stakes- He neutralized them all.She stung him, sapped his firm advance, But, when her worst was done, And he, unmoved, regarded her, Acknowledged him a man.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Done
  • She
  • Fall

• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  

  James Hillman
  • Cold
  • Depression