Eric Berne Quotes
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
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Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.
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Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
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I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
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Bryant...TO SHAQ!
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If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
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Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.
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Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
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A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
