Wilfred Bion Quotes

Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

Wilfred Bion

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• I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Best
  • Red
  • Circle

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• Jealousy is a scary thing.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Scary
  • Thing
  • Jealousy

• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Children
  • Week
  • Lunch

• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • Art
  • Friendship

• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Art
  • Understanding

• Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Science
  • Appreciation

• Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• 'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Friends
  • Faith
  • Friday

• Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Power

• Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Real
  • Home

• I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Rest

• Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Boy

• Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Community

• I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Work
  • Business
  • Amazing

• Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • People

• The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Men
  • Love
  • Community

• I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • History
  • Years
  • Lived

• No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Small
  • Simple

• Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • History
  • Darkness
  • Evolution