R. D. Laing Quotes

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

R. D. Laing

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  Basmah bint Saud
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• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
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  • Said

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
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• You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Work
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• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Polychain is investing in blockchain assets. We do not invest in private companies or hold shares in private companies. We invest purely in tokens or digital assets, and those include assets that people are familiar with, like bitcoin and ethereum, as well as very early-stage projects.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
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• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
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• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
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  • Paris

• I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
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• I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Work
  • Freedom

• My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Mother
  • House
  • Child

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
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• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

  Ted Williams
  • You
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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

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• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

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• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

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• The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

  

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• You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.

  

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• Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.

  

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  • Life
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• I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.

  

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  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Question

• From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • True
  • Patient
  • Madness