Alexander Lowen Quotes
Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
-
I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
-
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
-
In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
-
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
-
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
-
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
-
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
-
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
-
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
-
I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
-
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
-
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
-
Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
-
Good material is good material.
-
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
-
It feels so good to tell the truth.
-
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.
-
The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything – the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right?
-
If any white man in the world says, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of this bad nigger so there won't be any more like him.
-
Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say, And cast your words away upon the waves. Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today, And as they land upon the shore, Tell them not to fear no more. I'm not saying right is wrong, It's up to us to make the best of all the things that come our way. Cos' everything that's been has past, The answers in the looking glass. There's four and twenty million doors On life's endless corridor, So say it loud and sing it proud today.
-
Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
