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

• In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

  

  Christopher Meloni

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

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Believe
  • Family

• As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Captain

• Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself. You are evil.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Evil

• I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

  

  Jason Moran

• It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sighThe same desire and mystery,The echo of the whole sea's speech.

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Desire
  • Sea
  • Beach

• 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