Ernest Becker Quotes
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.
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I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
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Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
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My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
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It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
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Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.
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I think one of the most important things when I was learning how to do that was finding songs that I liked that had guitar solos in them and trying to figure out how to play those because even if it wasn’t me playing along to a previously recorded Dropkick Murphys solo I was, at least, learning how to play like that.
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Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.
