Lev Vygotsky Brainy Quotes & Sayings

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure. — Sigmund Freud

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life. — Juliana Hatfield

To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization. — Masao Abe

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way. — Charlie Haden

Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back. — Steven Brust

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas

Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says Oh, no! She's up. — Joanne Clancy

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. — Paul Cellucci

To young mind, work seemed to be the price that was gladly paid for the privilege of living so closely with the earth. Work was a real conversation with the landscape. It was not an abuse or raiding of the landscape. It was amazing to learn how to work in this context. — John O'Donohue

Because an idea lives on after the death of the person. — Patrick Ness

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship. — Freida Pinto

The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed. — Pope John Paul II

Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted. — Nael Gharzeddine

RELIGION IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE MESSY BUSINESS OF HUMANITY. — Ken Wilson