Ernest Becker Quotes

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Ernest Becker

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• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Ride

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Mature

• In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Football

• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Hunting

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Book
  • Rock
  • Star

• O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Innocent

• 'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Mind
  • Waves

• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Simple

• The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Important
  • Words

• Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Die

• I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Time
  • Power
  • Age

• Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

  

  Ji-Hae Park
  • Depression

• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • World
  • Money
  • End

• If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we won't get anywhere. We may momentarily relieve the population problem, the ecological problem, and so on, but they will come back in another way.

  

  David Bohm
  • May

• We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Like
  • Army
  • Gun

• Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rock

• Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Gone

• Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Dying
  • Victory
  • Personal