Caroline Myss Quotes

Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?

Caroline Myss

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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Son

• As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
  • Taken

• Boys never liked me at school. They made fun of me 'cos I had dark skin.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Fun
  • Dark

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Different
  • Money
  • Experience

• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Art
  • Power

• I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Great

• Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Broken
  • Immigration

• Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments they're opening, what sites they're visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys.

  

  James Comey
  • Long
  • Bad
  • Giving

• The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Forever

• Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Past
  • Pain

• For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.

  

  Constance Jablonski
  • She
  • Crazy

• I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

  

  James St. James
  • School

• If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.

  

  David Chang
  • Food

• Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Stop

• Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • People

• Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.

  

  Diplo
  • Real

• All of us needed to contribute in order for us to get that win. Some nights are going to be like that.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Contribute
  • Nights

• I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?

  

  Caroline Myss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking