Marshack Quotes & Sayings

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration. — Thomas De Quincey

they feel ignored, unappreciated, and unloved. That's because their context-blind Aspie family members are so poor at empathic reciprocity. As we have learned, we come to know ourselves in relation to others. This doesn't just apply when children are developing self-esteem. Throughout our lifespan, we continue to weave and re-weave the context of our lives, based on the interactions we have with our friends, coworkers, neighbors and loved ones. This is why it is so important for an NT parent/partner to get feedback from their spouse. A smile, a hug, a kind word, a note of encouragement: These are messages that reinforce the NT's self-esteem and contribute to a healthy reciprocity in the relationship. Without these daily reminders from their loved ones, NTs can develop some odd defense mechanisms. One is to become psychologically invisible to others and even to themselves. — Kathy J. Marshack

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts. — Victoria Justice

Sometimes a person has to accept who they are before they can share it with someone else. — Lillian Feisty

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side. — Charlie Munger

I've never played a character that would sing. — Katey Sagal

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. — Frederick William Robertson

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy ... if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing. — Gabriel Batistuta

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Consciousness is naturally shamanic. — Joy Manne

A lot of the early jazz artists, of course, couldn't even walk through the front door of the hotels and clubs they were playing in and had to enter through back doors and kitchens, and I think Jean felt this was a metaphor for his place in the art world: he had entered through the back door. He broke into the white art world in a way that had never been done before by any black. — Jennifer Clement

Creating art is basically creating a series of failures — Alex Pardee