Norman Cousins Quotes - Page 4

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• The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

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  Ego, Needs

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

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  Failure, Fate, Destiny

  Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

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  Peace, Firsts, Conflict

  Norman Cousins (1961). “In place of folly”

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• The essence of man is imperfection.

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  Acceptance, Men, Essence

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

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  Self, Despair, Trouble

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• For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

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  Equality, Opposites, Lows

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• Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

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  Education, Statistics, Infinity

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• Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

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  Writing, Together, Needs

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• No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

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  Inspirational, Enough, Pessimist

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• The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

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  Healing, Black, Physicians

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

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  Adventure, May, Energy

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• The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

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  War, Effectiveness, Possibility

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

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  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

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  Men, Perfection, Needs

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

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  Men, Names, Chinese

  Norman Cousins (1962). “In Place of Folly”

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• The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

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  Editing, Years, People

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• Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

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  Enemy, Constant

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• The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

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  Earth, May, Force

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

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  Recovery, Doctors, Enabling

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

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  Life, Pain, Men

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• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

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  Freedom, Responsibility, Democracies Have

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• Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

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  Senior, Country, Business

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

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  Gun, Survival, Never Quit

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

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  Believe, Fighting, Unesco

  "The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction". Book by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, 2015.

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• My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Reason

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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