Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
Quotes to Explore
-
Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
-
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
-
You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
-
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
-
If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
-
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
-
Professional competitions are overrated.
-
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
-
I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
-
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
-
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
-
Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
-
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
-
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
-
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
-
In Cardiff, I've heard a number of accent mixes that weren't previously heard before such as Cardiff-Arabic and Cardiff-Hindi. This pattern is repeating itself in many urban communities across the U.K.; people are especially keen to develop a strong sense of local identity.
-
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
-
Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.
-
Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
-
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
