Jumpolene Quotes & Sayings

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness — Charles Dickens

Fear and anxiety are not biologically wired. They do not erupt from a brain circuit in a prepackaged way as a fully formed conscious experience. They are a consequence of the cognitive processing of nonemotional ingredients. They come about in the brain the same way any other conscious experience comes about but have ingredients that nonemotional experiences lack.108 — Joseph E. Ledoux

Client-therapist disagreement about the goals and tasks of therapy may impair the therapeutic alliance. This issue is not restricted to group therapy. Client-therapist discrepancies on therapeutic factors also occur in individual psychotherapy. A large study of psychoanalytically oriented therapy found that clients attributed their successful therapy to relationship factors, whereas their therapists gave precedence to technical skills and techniques.84 In general, analytic therapists value the coming to consciousness of unconscious factors and the subsequent linkage between childhood experiences and present symptoms far more than do their clients, who deny the importance or even the existence of these elements in therapy; instead they emphasize the personal elements of the relationship and the encounter with a new, accepting type of authority figure. — Irvin D. Yalom

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple. — Richard Adams

If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are now — Sun Tzu

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. — Joseph Butler

The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated wind of the plains has leeway to seek out the hidden registers of its voice. Where immigrant farmers planted windbreaks a hundred and fifty years ago. it keens in protest; where the young corn shoots up, it whispers as it passes, crossing field after field in its own time, following eastward trends but in no hurry to find open water. You can't usually see it in paintings, but it's an important part of the scenery. — John Darnielle

You want to keep your little brother alive? Make sure you don't kill yourself while you're trying to save him. — Tahereh Mafi

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. — Morrissey

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul, — Steven Pressfield

I'd programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle. — Ernest Cline

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. — Ava Gardner

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income. — Anne Robinson

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. — Aristotle.