Alexander Lowen Quotes

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

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• I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Competition

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Way
  • Criticism
  • Legitimate

• But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Destroy

• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Chances
  • Second
  • Middle East

• I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Love
  • Think
  • Books

• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Good
  • Think
  • Guy

• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Moment
  • Memorable
  • Boston

• Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Think
  • Wrong
  • Old

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Dad

• What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Expect

• I would say I'm a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I were to have a story idea, and I decided to write a novel with it instead, I'd have to very consciously de-couple it from gamedom - for example, deliberately add in things that could not be represented in a game scene.

  

  Jane Jensen
  • Up
  • Game
  • Couple

• I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Important
  • Bad

• Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Important
  • Family
  • Fun

• We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Feeling