Malinowski Anthropologist Quotes & Sayings

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. — Allen Tate

the envelope. "And our best wishes. — Nora Roberts

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more Malinowski the more compelling the book. No Malinowski, and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all. — Neil Postman

The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants ... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes. — Bronislaw Malinowski

And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it. — Gwen Stefani

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing. — Joseph Butler

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain. — Mary Balogh

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. — Meister Eckhart

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne. — Ted Hughes

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.' — Seth Numrich