Sigmund Freud Quotes

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

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• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Men
  • Changes

• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Opinion

• Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Past

• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Two
  • Snow
  • London

• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Matter
  • View

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Presentation

• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Mind
  • Goals
  • Blessed

• Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Friends
  • American

• Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Children
  • Old
  • Cats

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Mind
  • Meditation

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Intelligence

• A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Christian

• Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Never
  • Will
  • Russia

• Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Leader
  • Wanting
  • Grownups

• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Intelligence
  • Adult
  • Contrast