Carol Tavris Quotes

To resolve the dissonance between “I love this person” and “This person is doing some things that are driving me crazy” will enhance their love story or destroy it.

Carol Tavris

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• DIssonance
• Enhance

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• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Government
  • Down

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Destroy
  • Aim
  • Israel

• They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Society
  • Way
  • Destroy

• Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Never
  • Destroy
  • Early

• Remember, this country had a man named J. Edgar Hoover, whose job it was to destroy the credibility of any black man coming up.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Country
  • Job
  • Remember

• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There is no question of us going to war in Iran. Why? Because it's not going to resolve the issue.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Why
  • War
  • Question

• I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Painting
  • Destroy
  • Unconscious

• If the Arabs are strong enough, they would destroy the whole world,therefore, we should annihilate them.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Strong
  • Destroy

• Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Road
  • Progress
  • Walking

• I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Destroy

• Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Destroy
  • Interests
  • Bibi

• Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Build

• It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Nature
  • Destroy

• Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Together
  • Hate
  • Technology

• The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Enemy

• Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Hope
  • Fight
  • Destroy

• People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

  

  John Newman
  • People
  • Ignore
  • Comparing

• Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Reality

• Jealousy isn't something we deal with well, but some of us have been around long enough to know when to let go, and what is most important. The happiness of my two best friends should be more important than some ancient feud.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Important
  • Long
  • Enough

• Partner dancing is a cultured act.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Act
  • Dancing

• To resolve the dissonance between “I love this person” and “This person is doing some things that are driving me crazy” will enhance their love story or destroy it.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Destroy
  • Resolve
  • DIssonance