Sigmund Freud Quotes

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Sigmund Freud

• Protection
• Weapon
• Self-Control
• Cigars
• Combat Of Life

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• Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Protection
  • Open
  • Court

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Best
  • Need
  • Protection

• The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Run
  • Protection
  • Serving

• There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Protection
  • Adequate

• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Weapon

• We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Memories
  • Comfort
  • Protection

• Two years ago, China tested an anti-satellite weapon that actually caused quite a bit of controversy and one of the controversies is that by blowing up a satellite, you are creating more space debris which is a hazard to satellites and spacecraft in lower Earth orbit and if they had been a partner, you'd have to do an experiment, and if they had been a partner in the international space station, would they have really done that test? They would have really thought twice about creating that tension between the countries and potentially endangering a project that they were a part of.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Done
  • Earth

• It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Society
  • Law
  • Sex

• Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Control
  • Discipline

• It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Soul
  • Protection
  • Devotion

• People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hope

• It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Needs
  • King
  • Protection

• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Fear

• A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Sun

• My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Friend
  • Taken
  • Road

• Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Present
  • Weapon
  • Mindfulness

• It's not exactly the way you want to have a team win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Team

• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Restraint
  • Fasting

• In particular, for my character, Celeste in Big Little Lies, there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Protection

• In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.

  

  David Fontana
  • Mind
  • Personal
  • Protection

• The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart: The proud to gain it toils on toils endure, The modest shun it, but to make it sure.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Art

• Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Protection
  • Weapon
  • Self-Control