Quotes of: Spencer Keyword

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

Pepper Schwartz

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

S. Jay Olshansky

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

S. Jay Olshansky

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

S. Jay Olshansky

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

Sarah Parcak

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

Sarah Parcak

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Todd Gitlin

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Todd Gitlin

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Todd Gitlin

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

Todd Gitlin

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Talcott Parsons

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

Janet Yellen

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

Kevin Spacey

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

Martha Beck

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Martha Beck

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Martha Beck

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

Martha Beck