Oehringen Quotes & Sayings

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can ... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave. — John Madden

Meanin I guess that he seen somebody in a place low enough to where he ought to be ready to take a pretty big step. — Cormac McCarthy

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. — Wilhelm Wundt

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success. — Francis Bacon

The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi. — Denis Leary

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. — Susan Cain

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient. — John Ortberg

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. — Charles Dickens

Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

It is precisely when we hear little from our partner which frightens, shocks, or sickens us that we should begin to be concerned, for this may be the surest sign that we are being gently lied to or shielded from the other's imagination, whether out of kindness or from a touching fear of losing our love. It may mean that we have, despite ourselves, shut our ears to information that fails to conform to our hopes - hopes which will thereby be endangered all the more. My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways - and that's okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we're all these incredibly fragile beings. — Alain De Botton

good people bring the good out of people — Turcois Ominek

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. — Daniel Kahneman

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secure within, we do not have to look to externals for satisfaction. No matter what happens outside--whether events are for or against us, however people behave towards us, whether we get what pleases us or do not--we are in no way dependent. Then it is that we can give freely to others; then it is that we can love. — Eknath Easwaran