George Herbert Mead Quotes

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

George Herbert Mead

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• Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Nothing
  • More

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Air

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror without seeing scars all over my face. I love my sport, but I would rather not have to spend hours doing my makeup to cover up the memories once I retire.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Memories
  • Mirror
  • Face

• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Death
  • Wife
  • Wonder

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • School

• If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • See

• I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Man
  • Strength
  • Percent

• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  

  Kate Bush
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Child

• I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Style
  • Old
  • Loss

• People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Eye
  • Beauty

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.

  

  Janet Malcolm

• By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Door
  • Understand
  • Now

• We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • World
  • Picture
  • Drawing

• I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Law

• Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Women
  • Tennis

• No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

  

  George Herbert Mead
  • Psychology