Norman Cousins Quotes

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

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• When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • System
  • Become
  • Oppression

• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • System
  • Finding

• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Find
  • Determination

• But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Alone
  • Determination
  • Socialism

• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Years
  • System
  • Welfare

• Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

  Gail Devers
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Remember

• But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Win
  • Determination

• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Years
  • States
  • Many

• The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • High
  • Success
  • Effort

• So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • System
  • Lifestyle

• Today Israel and India are embattled democracies, sharing values and the challenge of terrorism. United in our quest for life, liberty and peace our joint determination to fight for these values can inspire our hopes for a better future for our people.

  

  Ariel Sharon
  • People
  • Life
  • Future

• With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Effort
  • Determination

• Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

  

  David Blunkett
  • Hope
  • Balance
  • Determination

• I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Passion

• With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • People
  • Work
  • Focus

• I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Any question of philosophy … which is so obscure and uncertain, that human reason can reach no fixed determination with regard to it; if it should be treated at all; seems to lead us naturally into the style of dialogue and conversation.

  

  David Hume
  • Question
  • Style
  • Determination

• The reports we're getting really from throughout the state as well as King County, ... is that the county elections people are being very, very diligent.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • King
  • States

• Do we need distance to get close?

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Distance
  • Close

• My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

  

  Edith Konecky
  • My Mother
  • Make Sure
  • Insisted

• I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Religious

• Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Role
  • Mask
  • Flame

• A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Responsibility
  • Hands
  • Humans

• Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Determination
  • System
  • States