Arturo Rosenblueth Quotes
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For some people, cigarette smoke absolutely disgusts them.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
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I'm the same guy. I'm trying make sure I focus on what I'm supposed to be focusing on which is playing ball. I'm trying all out. Everything else is just B.S.
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I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
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Give up control to gain control.
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I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
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Lucy,' he murmured, 'you have some splainin' to do.
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one of the appropriate moments to make this clear.
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
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The natural state of mammals is to be somewhat on guard. However, in order to feel emotionally close to another human being, our defensive system must temporarily shut down. In order to play, mate, and nurture our young, the brain needs to turn off its natural vigilance . . . Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while others are too numb to absorb new experiences — or to be alert to signs of real danger . . . Many people feel safe as long as they can limit their social contact to superficial conversations, but actual physical contact can trigger intense reactions. However … achieving any sort of deep intimacy — a close embrace, sleeping with a mate, and sex — requires allowing oneself to experience immobilization without fear. It is especially challenging for traumatized people to discern when they are actually safe and to be able to activate their defenses when they are in danger. This requires having experiences that can restore the sense of physical safety.
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The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.
