Alfred Adler Quotes

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

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• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • My Life
  • Financially

• I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

  

  Vanity
  • Like
  • Making
  • Musical

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Never

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Voice

• For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

  

  OMI
  • Artist
  • Reggae
  • Dancehall

• My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • City
  • Nice
  • Favorite

• The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • World
  • Live
  • Illusion

• French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Up
  • Camping

• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Control
  • Patience

• If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.

  

  Patti Stanger

• Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Rock

• In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

  

  Georg Cantor
  • Art
  • Question
  • Value

• The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Beautiful
  • Trouble
  • Liberating

• If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Strong
  • Military

• He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Write
  • Ink

• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  

  Alfred Adler
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