Jean Piaget Quotes

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Jean Piaget

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• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• I'm not a control freak.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Control
  • Control Freak

• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Up
  • May
  • Theory

• We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Trying
  • Focus

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Girl

• In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Lost
  • Purpose
  • Practice

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Character
  • Man
  • Look

• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • History
  • Deep
  • Modernity

• As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • House
  • Options
  • New Yorker

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Together
  • Feeling
  • Language

• My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Once
  • Hindu

• Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Never
  • Flowers

• With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Down
  • Looking
  • Edge

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • See
  • Look

• I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

  

  James Jones
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • People
  • Together

• There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Love
  • Religious

• I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Hurt
  • Mad
  • Heartbreak

• Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

  

  Jean Piaget