Adam Phillips Quotes

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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• Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Me
  • Day
  • Best

• My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Proud
  • Now
  • Coaching

• It takes two to get one in trouble.

  

  Mae West
  • Trouble
  • Two
  • Get

• In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Love
  • Incredible

• Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Cool
  • Rock
  • Rocks

• We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • Holy Spirit

• God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • God
  • Moral

• Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.

  

  Bruce Anthony Johannesson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Inspiring

• You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Guy
  • Red
  • Pictures

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Time
  • Law
  • Force

• The Way to do is to be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Doing

• But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Perfect
  • Wise
  • Rich

• Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Ends
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