Aronson Quotes & Sayings

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. — Joseph Butler

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer. — Elliot Aronson

Aronson split off to go back to work on — Michael Connelly

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer. — Arnold Aronson

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone. — Elliot Aronson

Aronson was getting at the fine line between seeking the truth and seeking a verdict in your client's favor. They weren't always the same thing. — Michael Connelly

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself. — Elliot Aronson

My dear friend Queen Victoria, who has absolute trust in the Divine Justice and goodness, used to often say to me: "What we do not understand now, we shall understand some day- in this life or the next" Empress Eugenie — Theo Aronson

He had, in fact, cracked his knee-cap. But refusing to have a doctor — Theo Aronson

We need to challenge our own thinking. — Elliot Aronson

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet. — James Oppenheim

Prince Albert, or Bertie, as he was known in the family (his full names were Albert Frederick Arthur George), had been raised by nurses and tutors. His mother had played so little part in his upbringing that only after his nurse had suffered a nervous breakdown did she discover that the woman had not had a day off in over three years. — Theo Aronson

In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power. — Nicholson Baker

Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy. — Elliot Aronson

Science is a form of arrogance control. — Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

PUBLIC RELATIONS GOES DIGITAL — Merry Aronson

RECONDITION YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS — David J. Schwartz

In Philadelphia, there's no delineation, they address me as Rocky, for real. They'll say things like: "Rocky, do you like this coat?" Or: "Rock, say hi to my sister." Or: "Yo Rock, I know a great restaurant." There's no Sylvester. Even the Mayor goes: "It's good to have Rocky here today." — Sylvester Stallone

This is a book about questioning what others believe to be true, not accepting ideas just because famous people say they are right. I think knowledge is more like a wave than a switch. Only very rarely do we go from being totally wrong to totally right
as a light turns off and on. Instead, what we learned before allows us to move on to what we can see next. We can surf ahead, but there will always be another challenge, another crest, another setp. We must always keep thinking and asking new questions. — Marc Aronson

If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image. — Arnold Aronson

Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works. — Letty Aronson

No critic ever changed the world. — Robin Sharma

We put our children through their paces in school not so that they will learn something, or master something, or meet any standards. No. We give them tools so that they can experience the joy, the passion, of creating. All we are doing is saying, "Here, if you know this, there is more you can make; there is another path you can map; there is another song you can compose." School - from pre-K to postdoc programs - exists so that we can all build more from within ourselves and with our colleagues. — Marc Aronson

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. — Elliot Aronson

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines. — Arnold Aronson

Give us this day our daily mask. — Tom Stoppard

But he would give the Spainish no satisfaction. When they offered him a drink, he smashed the glass and ate the shards, preferring his own English blood to their sweet wine. He died soon after. — Marc Aronson

People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy. — Letty Aronson

Let the war-ravaged people speak
No more Hiroshimas
No more Warsaw Massacres

Oh martyred Lidice! Bleeding Poland!
Beautiful Dresden no one could save.
Nor art nor pity nor the Madonna's hovering angels.
Hearts broken at Stalingrad! Pearl Harbor!
The beaches of Normandy!

Oh my people of all nations.
Brothers and sisters of one human family,
all stricken by war
Cry your heart's anguish, my tears mingle with yours!
But cry out one mighty voice to leaders and statesmen:
NO MORE WAR! — Rebecca Shelley

I really feel that a big part of my job - besides getting the money - is to see to it that Woody [Allen] has what he needs to make the film that he has envisioned. — Letty Aronson

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it. — Marc Aronson

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married. — Gregg Allman

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. — Rashid Johnson

King George V and Queen Mary had been inadequate parents. Both were shy, inhibited, inarticulate people, not given to displays of emotion or affection. — Theo Aronson