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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Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!' But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
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To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.
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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.
