Alfred Korzybski Quotes

The main thesis of this non-Aristotelian system is that as yet we all (with extremely few exceptions) copy animals in our nervous processes, and that practically all human difficulties, mental ills … have this … component.

Alfred Korzybski

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• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Latin America

• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Judge

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Moment
  • Possible

• I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Think
  • Win
  • Fight

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • School
  • Education
  • Door

• Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Economics

• I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Long
  • Bike
  • Ride

• America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Pot
  • Melting Pot

• Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Success
  • Beginning
  • Selling

• When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Special

• Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • You
  • Doing
  • Rent

• Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Gift

• I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Me
  • Old

• 'Look, Felicity,' says Howard, 'there's only one rule. Follow the line of your own desires.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury

• By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • High
  • Savage

• Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Deep

• The federal government needs a strategic approach that includes strong leadership and the ability to manage weather related risks. The challenge of developing such an approach is complex: It must not only encompass all levels of government but must also be developed in a bipartisan manner.

  

  Matt Cartwright
  • Strong
  • Challenge
  • Leadership

• Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • People
  • Golf

• I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Introvert

• When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Singing

• The main thesis of this non-Aristotelian system is that as yet we all (with extremely few exceptions) copy animals in our nervous processes, and that practically all human difficulties, mental ills … have this … component.

  

  Alfred Korzybski