Ernest Becker Quotes

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Ernest Becker

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• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

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• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

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• Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

  

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• I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

  

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• Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

  

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• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

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• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

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• Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

  

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• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

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• The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

  

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• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

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• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

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• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

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• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

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• It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

  

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• You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.

  

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• I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

  

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• My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

  

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• The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

  

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• Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.

  

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• I’m pushing myself by not being scared of putting ideas out. I’m just trying to make a song out of an idea and being okay with it and not judge it. It’s a different approach. I’m having fun.

  

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• But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

  

  John Ruskin
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• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Ideas
  • Conscious
  • Worms