Diclementes Transtheoretical Model Quotes & Sayings

One of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development. — Mary Hesse

Celebrity is the religion of our time. — Maureen Dowd

What is Intriguing to Wise, throws a Simpleton into Oblivion and an Eccentric into a BLACK HOLE! — True Krishna Priya

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease. — Susan Sontag

We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody. — Sarada Devi

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements. — Edward Thorndike

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.' — John Krasinski

There is a Zen story about a man riding a horse that is galloping very quickly. Another man, standing alongside the road, yells at him, "Where are you going?" and the man on the horse yells back, "I don't know. Ask the horse." I think that is our situation. We are riding many horses that we cannot control. — Thich Nhat Hanh

[Preston] Hotchkis had earned his position by representing San Marino, a tiny, rich, Anglo municipality south of Pasadena that had been tellingly named after a European micro-kingdom. — Victor Valle

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are. — Samuel Beckett

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual. — Christopher Bram

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you — Stephen Vizinczey

The rain is slow. — Mary Oliver