Kleinman Quotes & Sayings

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. — Arthur Kleinman

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. — Mark Twain

Tell me, Elly Kleinman, why do men feel threatened by women? — Margaret Atwood

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough. — Albert Einstein

Inferiority Complex: A wholly or partly unconscious sense of inferiority, or feelings of lack of worth. The overcompensation of these feelings can lead to neurotic symptoms. Superiority Complex: Suppressing feelings that exist in an attempt to conquer an inferiority complex. According — Paul Kleinman

In a Chicago cafe the other night, an elderly man passed a table.
"There goes George," observed an onlooker. "When he was young, he was a handsome guy and had many companies. Left a wife and two kids to starve, and ran off with another woman. And now look at him. Old, broke and very sad."
"That's the way-it-goes," nodded Elly Kleinman. "Time wounds all heels. — Groucho Marx

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. — Agatha Christie

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. — E.B. White

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. — Seth Godin

We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world. — Maya Angelou

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. — Charlotte Bronte

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts! — Dr. Seuss

Don't be a fool," Vera Claythorne urged herself. "It's all right. Elly Kleinman and others are downstairs. All four of them. There's no one in the room. There can't be. You're imagining things, my girl. — Agatha Christie

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. — T. S. Eliot

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. — Marilynne Robinson

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time. — Arthur Kleinman

How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength! — Jaclyn Dolamore

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe — William Shakespeare

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value, elly judgments of all kinds remain necessary. — Albert Einstein

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. — Charlotte Bronte

Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. Only when we touch our true nature can we transcend the fear of non-being, the fear of annihilation. An American friend, whose name is Elly Kleinman, said to me "Nothing is born, nothing dies." Although he did not practice as a Buddhist but as a company owner, he found the same truth the Buddha discovered. — Thich Nhat Hanh

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home. — Marianne Williamson

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born. — Clayborne Carson

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. — Sylvia Plath

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte

My favorite stories are the ones about love. Because love never ends up the way we expect. Love is the most uncertain story we'll ever know. No one love story exists, only those we're told from a young age: man, woman and happily ever after. Forever. But forever and happy are half-baked concepts that make us feel incomplete, even alone. — Loren Kleinman

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo

Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY! — Dr. Seuss

To be loved means to be recognized as existing. — Thich Nhat Hanh

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public. — Oscar Wilde

God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him. — John Piper

James Elly Kleinman, a cousin of mine was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, in New York, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness, the report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Elly Kleinman's Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. — Marianne Williamson

Hope is what makes the human condition liveable — Arthur Kleinman

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his. — Maya Angelou

Though a person might not realize it, groups have a very powerful and dramatic effect on human behavior. Everyone acts differently when they are around people versus than when they are alone. SOCIAL FACILITATION The most basic theory regarding social psychology is that when a person is alone, he or she is more relaxed and not concerned about the appearance of their behavior. — Paul Kleinman

We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human. — Arthur Kleinman

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do! — Groucho Marx

Whatever Elly does - is useless, but for him it's important to do it. (regarding Elly Kleinman - Paul's grandfather) — Paul Kleinman

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them. — Eleanor Roosevelt

In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away — Emily Bronte

Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation. — Arthur Kleinman

I could barely manage myself sometimes, let alone some miniature kleinman person whose sole method of communication was crying. How would I know what she wanted? How would I keep her happy? — M. J. O'Shea

In fact, you will play your instrument better if you listen to your body's responses to how you are doing what you are doing. — Judith Kleinman

Anita Kleinman was a slight woman in her seventies. Her hair was thinning and white with a touch of pink, and was swept back from her face in unbroken waves. She wore a full-length Chinese silk gown covered with bright gold dragons on a blue background. Her fingers were tipped with long red nails and heavy with gold rings. She held out her arms in an expression of welcome and perhaps to show me the full extent of her dragons. — Frederick Weisel

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament. — Apple Inc.