Norman Cousins Quotes

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

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• My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Help
  • Desire

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • New
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Try

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Africa
  • Canada
  • Caribbean

• In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Return
  • Bring

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

  

  Tara Brach
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Age
  • Doing
  • Young

• I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Question
  • Tombstone

• I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Giving
  • Matter
  • Scripture

• The flames roll'd on­-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Father
  • Death

• I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • House
  • Death
  • Secret

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Death
  • inspirational
  • Meaningful