Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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I am very fired up to run in New York.
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I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.
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There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
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Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
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From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.
