Shrinks Quotes

• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Book, Self

  "Fictional character: Robin Simon". "Celebrity", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Preparation, Redress, Conservatism

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Giving Up, Riddle

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

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• People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

  Hugh Laurie

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

  James Caan

  Quitting, Fortune, Caught

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• The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Real, Balance, Taxation

  "The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt".

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• When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Writing, Eye

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• There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

  Patrick Pearse

  Laughter, Sacrifice, Joy

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• You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.

  Neville Goddard

  Blessed, Men, Creative

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• Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

  William Henry Hudson

  Animal, Class, Strange

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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• Let no one pray that they know not sorrow,
  Let no soul ask to be free from pain,
  For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow,
  And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
  Through want of a thing does its worth redouble,
  Through hunger's pangs does the feast content,
  And only the heart that has harboured trouble
  Can fully rejoice when joy is sent.
  Let no one shrink from the bitter tonics
  Of grief, and yearning, and need, and strife,
  For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonics
  Are found in the minor strains of life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life's Harmonies”

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• A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

  Carson Daly

  Important, Butchers

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• [T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

  John Stossel

  Government, Balance, Want

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• Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

  Hugh Nibley

  Achievement, Effort, Limits

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• Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

  Michael Pollan

  Self, Shapes, Size

  Michael Pollan (2013). “A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder”, p.9, Random House

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• Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

  Hal Borland

  Failure, Next Week, Today

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• I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  Jim Morrison

  Freedom, Thinking, Greatest Fear

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• When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Dwarves, Dying

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that’s bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that they’ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.

  Chevy Stevens

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Chevy Stevens (2011). “Still Missing”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

  Johannes Kepler

  Future, Air, Space

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• Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.

  Nixon Waterman

  Thinking, Work Out

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• When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Soul, World

  Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.30, Macmillan

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• The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Eye, Loss

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