Edwin Boring Quotes
It is not likely that the history of psychology can be written in the next three centuries without mention of Freud's name and still claim to be a general history of psychology... Perhaps, had Freud been smothered in his cradle, the times would have produced a substitute, It is hard to say. The dynamics of history lack control experiments.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Well, before you are always self-you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.
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I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
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We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think that because of our bilingual history, we'll always be speaking a special kind of English and Spanish. What we do have to do is fight for the right to use those two languages in the way that it serves us. Nuevo-mexicanos have done it very well for hundreds of years, inventing words where they don't have them. I think the future of our language is where we claim our bilingualism for its utility.
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Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
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You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
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It is not likely that the history of psychology can be written in the next three centuries without mention of Freud's name and still claim to be a general history of psychology... Perhaps, had Freud been smothered in his cradle, the times would have produced a substitute, It is hard to say. The dynamics of history lack control experiments.
