Properispomenon Quotes & Sayings

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one's best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one's own will and one's own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development. — C. G. Jung

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake. — James C. Collins

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director. — Kathryn Bigelow

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin ... the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas. — Cameo Renae

Oh my," she said, feigning innocence. She fanned a hand in front of her face. "Revenge is so sweet! — Margaret Taylor

When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build. — Henry Kuttner

I would rather be a rebel than a slave. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Success is to be Happy in Life. — Heidi Klum

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all. — Margot Kidder

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood. — Nicole Krauss

If you want to say that a word has a circumflex on its penultimate syllable, without saying flat out that it has a circumflex there, there is a word for it: properispomenon. — Bill Bryson

properispomenon. — Bill Bryson

A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy strike the inner ear differently from those of pain. — Fred D'Aguiar

In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine. — Chet Faker

We are mere part of a grand whoe, in no way superior, not at all the angels in mortal attire we pretend to be. — Rick Yancey

There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer. — Gertrude Stein

I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me. — Adele