George Herbert Mead Quotes

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

George Herbert Mead

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• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Strength
  • Run

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deep
  • Run
  • Resentment

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• The core of my personality consists of many selves.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Personality
  • Many
  • Core

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Myself
  • Body
  • Voice

• We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Time
  • Important
  • Future

• I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Kind
  • New
  • Tell

• 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' (talking about the United States State Department) 2

  

  Pat Robertson

• If one has faith one has everything.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Faith

• Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Why
  • Light
  • Poetry

• You know what enormous harm we have been dealt by the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Everybody who has read your book, everybody who has seen the reviews are convinced that the potential harm from your 'Life and Fate' would be far more dangerous than that of Doctor Zhivago.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Life
  • Book
  • Fate

• In another's eyes I'm afraid that I can't seeThis picture perfect portrait that they paint of me.They don't realize and I pray they never do,'Cause every time I look I'm seein' youIn another's eyes.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Eyes

• I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Believe
  • Family

• I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Hand

• For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Time
  • Work
  • Aerosmith

• The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: 'Byron is dead!'

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Words
  • Sun
  • Moon

• The infectious diseases that regularly visited crowded Eurasian societies, and to which many Eurasians consequently developed immune or genetic resistance, included all of history's most lethal killers: smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, tuberculosis, typhus, cholera, malaria, and others.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • History

• I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

  

  Diego Luna

• The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

  

  George Herbert Mead