Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Money

• With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Ocean

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream
  • Emperor

• I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • First
  • Grateful
  • Veterans

• What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society

• If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Twin

• It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • Space
  • Focus

• Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Police

• Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Style
  • Hero
  • Batman

• Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Life
  • College
  • Decision

• If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Power
  • Happy

• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Trying

• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • American
  • America

• I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Training

• Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Respect
  • Training
  • Function