Sigmund Freud Quotes

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Sigmund Freud

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• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

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• I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.

  

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• What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

  

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• When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
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• I try to only go out twice a week. More than that would leave me feeling pretty run down.

  

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• When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

  

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• I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

  

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• Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

  

  Jesse Harris
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• If you decide you need a secured card, use it to charge small items every month, then pay the balance off in full. If your credit score improves, and the bank doesn't offer to upgrade your card within 12 to 18 months, give them a call. If they refuse, try another lender.

  

  Jean Chatzky
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• Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.

  

  James E. Faust
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• The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

  

  Janine Turner

• I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

  

  Margaret Qualley

• I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

  

  Joanne Woodward
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• You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'

  

  Master P
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• New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.

  

  Ben Huh
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• I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.

  

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• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

  

  Giancarlo Esposito
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• Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  

  Samuel Ullman
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• We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
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• Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
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• Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Maturity
  • Gratification
  • Postpone