Regress Quotes

• ... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.

  

  Alice S. Rossi
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • America
  • Parks
  • Roller-Coaster

• Don’t succumb. Fight. You are of today, take hold of today, don’t regress, don’t lose yourself, keep a tight grip. Above all, don’t give in to distracted or malicious or angry monologues. Eliminate the exclamation points. Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Fight
  • Angry
  • Defenses

• We (My Chemical Romance) didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in order to advance, we need to regress. There was definitely a sense of fear within the band about taking that next step.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Step
  • Next
  • Level

• Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order properly to satisfy our curiosity we will inevitably rely on one or more of them. So, either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Trust
  • Wonder
  • Satisfy