Rollo May Quotes

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

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• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Men
  • Man
  • Black

• I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Drunk

• The Antipods…were always ready to burst.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Life
  • Live
  • Success

• The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing

• You never find virtuosity for its own sake.

  

  Daniel Hope

• When you have a tough year or a year that didn't go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Team
  • Taken

• To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Children
  • Father
  • Risk

• I just am who I am.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• I feel like when I'm on stage and when I'm performing - or I think when anybody is developing their talents and sharing it - I think you glow.

  

  Lindsey Stirling

• I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • People

• I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Black

• Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Travel

• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Great
  • Thoughts
  • Walking

• Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms, these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.

  

  Hal Porter
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Literature

• I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Believe
  • Death

• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Suffering

• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

  

  Rollo May
  • Depression