Quotes of: James-brown Keyword

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Toward a Psychology of Being

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

The Peter Principle

How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

Romancing Mister Bridgerton

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

On Writing

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Alison Gopnik

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

Billy Corgan

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world...

Bill Walton

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Hakeem Olajuwon

I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

Henry Paulson

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

James Longstreet