Iain McGilchrist Quotes

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

Iain McGilchrist

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• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

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• I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

  

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• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

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• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

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• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
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• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

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• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

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• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

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• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

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• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

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• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

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• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

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• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  

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• There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

  

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• One life to live, live it to the fullest. If you have doubts or your gut feeling says something, listen. Don't waste time, time will waist u.

  

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• I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.

  

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• In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.

  

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• There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

  

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• Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Happiness