Couples Gottman Quotes & Sayings

In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe. — Raul Garcia

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought. — Samuel Palmer

Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude. — Richard Mitchell

Couples who regularly practice empathy see stunning results. It is the independent variable that predicts a successful marriage, according to behaviorist John Gottman, who, post hoc criticisms notwithstanding, forecasts divorce probabilities with accuracy rates approaching 90 percent. In Gottman's studies, if the wife felt she was being heard by her husband - to the point that he accepted her good influence on his behavior - the marriage was essentially divorce-proof. (Interestingly, whether the husband felt heard was not a factor in divorce rates.) If that empathy trafficking was absent, the marriage foundered. Research — John Medina

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be communicated with. — Flint McGlaughlin

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet. — Maya Angelou

Have you ever gotten so emotional over a book that you actually have to sit yourself down, remind yourself it's only a story and that the characters aren't real? — Anonymous

Things are different now." " things are better now," I replied. " Aren't they? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things. — Spencer W. Kimball

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. — Nicolas Roeg

Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit. — Terence McKenna