Unhealthy Quotes - Page 6

• People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Attachment, People

  "Sherry Turkle: 'We're losing the raw, human part of being with each other'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

  Henry Selick

  Creativity, Thinking, Pressure

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• We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.

  Werner Herzog

  Civilization, Tvs, Watches

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2003.

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• Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

  Martin Seligman

  Sports, Medicine, People

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• I would love to pretend I don't diet, but I work very hard. I stay active and eat very healthy. Anybody who says otherwise is either unhealthy or lying! I will admit that I'm addicted to sugar - licorice, Jujubees and jelly candies. And I actually love bran muffins!

  Evangeline Lilly

  Lying, Healthy, Jelly

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• Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.

  Susan Forward

  Expression, Effort, Parent

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• I was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.

  Muriel Lester

  Jobs, Sex, Fear

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• To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Sunshine, Dark

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• The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

  Anat R. Admati

  Banking, Symbiosis, Problem

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• When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Trying, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 22, 2015

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• I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

  Marie Osmond

  Mother, Body, Lessons

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• The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

  William Saroyan

  Children, Race, Healthy

  William Saroyan (1968). “My heart's in the Highlands”

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• Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Humility, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't let the scale fool you. Plus doesn't always equal unhealthy, just like skinny doesn't always equal healthy.

  Liris Crosse

  Work Out, Healthy, Lazy

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings around her neck to sell her craft. Then she became a celebrity, so all of the wannabes started following her in that uncomfortable and unhealthy trend. But is that so different from Pamela Anderson? I don't think so.

  Noma Bar

  Thinking, Icons, Different

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• The mental game of 'holding out,' not eating for as long as possible, at least for me, was a really unhealthy mental place. I would inevitably lose that battle and eat too much in one sitting and end up really mad at myself.

  Alison Sweeney

  Games, Long, Mad

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

  David Samuels

  Reading, People, Silence

  David Samuels (2008). “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”

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• I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sick, Needs, Culture

  "Streisand Says New Year's Eve Her Last Live Concert". articles.chicagotribune.com. January 17, 2000.

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• That's what YouTube's become, it's become like a lot of vloggers capitalizing on this sort of like "My fans, I love my fans, hey guys." I've grown up and kind of been disgusted by that. I think it's using people, I think it's like encouraging something that's unhealthy, telling people you love them. "I love you." Oh really, you love your fans? You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that's not selfless that you love your fans, that's ridiculous.

  Bo Burnham

  Using People, Love You, Thinking

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.

  Andrew Garfield

  People, Acting, Way

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Rivers, Years, Cities

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section,

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• Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Son, Men

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• If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

  Bernie Siegel

  School, Doctors, Healthy

  "Why We Become Doctors" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

  Brennan Manning

  Father, People, Faces

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