Rollo May Quotes

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Women
  • Reality

• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • You
  • Cannot
  • Govern

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Goodness
  • Root

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Human Rights

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Words

• I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Better

• What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Training
  • Travel
  • Journey

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Generations

• Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Strong
  • Values
  • Management

• A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Horse

• What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Public
  • Devotion
  • Self-Interest

• Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Style
  • Effort

• When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there's a ringing noise in my head. I'm just zoned in, and even though I know there are people watching me, all I hear is this ringing inside of me.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • People

• People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

  

  Rollo May
  • People
  • Dangerous