Medard Quotes & Sayings

The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off. — Medard Boss

A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology. — Medard Boss

A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statements are related not to time itself but only to its measurement or calculation. — Medard Boss

The simplest words,
we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight. — Rachel Hunter

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you. — Tony Dungy

The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world. — Medard Boss

Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in. — Christian Slater

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. — Medard Boss

I stay neutral with homosexuality; I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere. — M.F. Moonzajer

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. — Abraham Lincoln

No use in crying like that!' said Alice to herself, rather sharply; 'I advise you to leave off this minute! — Lewis Carroll

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. — Hod Lipson

The dust made Lily cough. She buried her face in the crook of her arm to muffle the noise. But behind all that wood, they probably could play the 1812 Overture with real cannons and nobody would hear them. — Ellie McDonald

Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence ... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful ... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself. — Medard Boss

We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there) ... Man as man is present ... in a manner wholly different from ... inanimate things. — Medard Boss

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory. — Johanna Drucker

If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible. — Medard Boss

The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be — Stephen R. Covey

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. — Medard Boss

In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn't just someone yelling their head off. — Meredith Monk

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures. — Bruce Feirstein