Norman Cousins Quotes

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Norman Cousins

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• With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Performance
  • Greatest

• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Me

• As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Power
  • Feet

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.

  

  Parker Young
  • Confidence
  • Smart
  • Humor

• It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Work
  • American

• Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Inspiration
  • Baby face

• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Alone

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • Win

• Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Honor
  • Perfection

• There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

  

  Edmund White
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Beach

• I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Home
  • Persons
  • Still

• I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi

• I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Home
  • House

• When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

  

  Dawn Steel

• And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Together
  • Facts
  • Achievement

• Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• Dare yourself to believe in your creativity, wherever it may lead you. Trust that where it leads, is exactly where you're supposed to be. Your authentic self knows where you're headed. Don't wrestle with Spirit, collaborate with it.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Creativity

• I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

  

  Ernie Fletcher
  • Game
  • Political
  • Government

• If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Achievement
  • Because
  • Approach