Eric Berne Quotes
A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.'
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
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I began to feel lighthearted. Don’t ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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In defense of the right to...marry whom we please - we might quote some of the basic principles of our government and suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union.
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'No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments,' he Wasserman ordered his agents. 'Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.'
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while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
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Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
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Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
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We're not in control of circumstances, but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what it means to live in a community. That's what it means to live in society.
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Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
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Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.'
