Quotes of: Pecking Keyword

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

William Glasser

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no control over it.

William Glasser

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

Larry Buchanan

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

Franny and Zooey

We ignore the emotional needs of young children at our peril.

Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there’s a pecking order in that, don’t you?

Blood Roses

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Bad Science

You will do it because you know that knowledge is beautiful, and because if only a hundred people share your passion, that is enough.

Bad Science

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't.

The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

Solitude: A Return to the Self

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

Octavia E. Butler

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

Pat Morita

There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is.

Kathryn Hahn

There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.

Ben Goldacre

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with di...

BD Wong

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and 'yes-butts'...

David D. Burns

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can chan...

David D. Burns

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross