Human Condition Quotes - Page 19

• Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

  Millard Sheets

  Art, Humans, Conditions

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• My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.

  Karl Hess

  Song, Responsibility, Light

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• No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character

  Alexander Hamilton (1797). “Observations on certain documents in "The history of the United States for the year 1796,"”, p.12

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• Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Topics, Conversation, Faster

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• The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

  Roger Ebert

  Arguing, Film, Young

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.258, Crown Archetype

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• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  Ben Yagoda

  Children, Effectiveness, Order

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• I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Daughter, Halloween, School

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• Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Thinking, Worry, World

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.36, Grove Press

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• It's very much an exploration of the human condition and how different people react and respond to their lives. And what they present to the world, in terms of who they are as characters and what is going on behind the mask, in terms of what demons their holding... and how that interacts.

  Sean Mahon

  Character, People, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

  Fisher Stevens

  People, Stories, Humans

  "Fisher Stevens and Stand Up Guys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

  William Golding

  Children, Clever, Curiosity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

  Jean Houston

  Teaching, People, Empowering

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• The human condition itself inspires me.

  Nathan Parsons

  Inspire, Humans, Conditions

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

  Allen W. Wood

  Views, Greek, Chinese

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Epilepsy, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other perspective. You need people to want to be there so they can talk at length and want to continue talking to you.

  Rod Blackhurst

  Regret, Talking, Perspective

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Phrases, My Favorite

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• You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Math, Years, Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's all about human condition, ultimately. That's what you're looking at. You're also looking to have some fun, as well, because that also translates. Maybe wearing tights once in awhile helped. Getting up on a horse a couple of times before might have helped.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Horse, Couple, Fun

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some of them are huge. Given that reality of the human condition, that's what our characters will go through. There will be some things where you'll just be like, "What the hell! How the hell did that happen?"

  Veena Sud

  Character, Reality, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of a slightly larger-than-life artistic truth, you know, magnifying real emotional truth (or) finding something about human condition (which), you wouldn't necessarily think you can learn from characters such as Kong or Gollum, but actually they are, you know, these huge amplifications of a human psyche and I suppose those kind of roles have always attracted me definitely.

  Andy Serkis

  Real, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.

  James Alison

  Strong, Crazy, Gay

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Between extremities
  Man runs his course;
  A brand, or flaming breath,
  Comes to destroy
  All those antinomies
  Of day and night.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Night, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Past, Bridges, Decision

  Foreword of "The image of the future" by Fred Polak, (p. V), 1972.

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