Eugene Gendlin Quotes

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

Eugene Gendlin

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• The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Live
  • Future

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Ball
  • Middle
  • Chances

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Opinion
  • Arguments

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Question
  • Single
  • Achievement

• I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Good
  • Love
  • Dark

• Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Like
  • Superhero
  • Often

• If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Student

• In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Money

• A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Work
  • Period

• My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Job
  • Cutting
  • Walk

• But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Sleep
  • Strange
  • Cats

• The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Artist

• To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life
  • Good

• So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Universe
  • Silly

• The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.

  

  Pink
  • Tired

• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Heart
  • Dark

• Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

  

  Eugene Gendlin
  • Experience
  • Philosophy
  • Report