Quotes of: Joseph-campbell Keyword

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Lyall Watson

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

Mary Harris Jones

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

Mary Harris Jones

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Mary Leakey

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Mary Leakey

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

Mary Leakey

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Mead

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.

Robert Sternberg

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Matthew Simpson

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Elizabeth Edwards

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Michael Savage

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Alexis de Tocqueville

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

John Taylor Gatto

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Ruth Benedict

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

Conrad Wolfram

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

Raf Simons