Syndromes Quotes - Page 8

• The whole narcissism and echo syndrome is usually the result of early childhood training. Those are very hard habits for anyone to break.

  Merrill Markoe

  Echoes, Childhood, Training

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Meaningful, Joy, Waiting

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.179, Penguin

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• The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Issues, Debate

  "Mediasaurus: the Decline of Conventional Media". Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C., April 07, 1993.

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• It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.

  Kevin Nash

  Thinking, Careers, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  Irving Kirsch

  Pain, Placebo Effect, Research

  "Interview: Irving Kirsch showed power of placebo effect with antidepressant use". Interview with Brian Morton, Kevin Griffin, www.vancouversun.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Editors, Praise

  Christopher Hitchens (2013). “Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Daughter, Horse

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.36, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Art, Writing

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• I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with itshard edges and harsh light did not have enough resonance to echo the demands I made upon experience. It was as if I never experienced experience as experience. Living never lived up to the expectations I had of it--the Bovary syndrome.

  Angela Carter

  Reality, Echoes, Light

  Angela Carter (2016). “Fireworks”, p.54, Random House

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• Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Mother, Children, Women

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of fact, this condition does not come under my special medical interests or I would have had it solved long ago. … The condition has its compensations: one is not yanked from interesting work to go to the jungles of Burma ... one avoids all kinds of deadly committee meetings, etc.

  Fuller Albright

  Past, Long Ago, Years

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• From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.

  Tony Attwood

  Children, Thinking, Adults

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• Russia has banned all adoptions to Americans. So, if you were hoping to get a little white kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, you're going to have to wait until Lindsay Lohan reproduces.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Russia, White

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• One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to really go after, that would be one that I would really argue is an extraordinarily high priority and something people can actually do something about.

  Richard Jackson

  Cancer, Kids, America

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• The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Important, Orchestra

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

  Chris Burke

  Cases

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• I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

  Margaret Cho

  Airports, Eggs, White

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• Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Keys, Government, Giving

  "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Book by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009.

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• The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Country, Mistake, Past

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• Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, People, Guy

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• From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Aspergers, Disorder

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• There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

  Noam Chomsky

  Vietnam, Fabrication

  Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2004.

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• I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

  Phil Hartman

  Glasses, Wigs, Noses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

  Tim Howard

  Different, Tourettes, Feels

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