Quotes of: Maria Keyword

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

Banal Nationalism

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Banal Nationalism

I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

Bill Viola

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Monica Seles

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Advice for a Young Investigator

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.

A Summer to Die

Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Man's Search for Himself

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Man's Search for Himself

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Obedience to Authority

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Toward a Psychology of Being

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no.

Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Venus Williams

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.

Miguel Nicolelis

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

Miguel Nicolelis