Quotes & Sayings About Pygmalion Effect

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel. — Anna Brownell Jameson

And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness. Our days become filled with drama over the ridiculous; our complaints fly free at the smallest challenge or difficulty; our energy and wealth are consumed by what is fleeting; and our chatter becomes dominated by events, people, and things that won't last much longer than the morning mist. To — Louie Giglio

Become the most passionate person you know. It'll be contagious. — Robin Sharma

All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women! — Gary Shteyngart

It" is the idea of him or her that resides in us--inspired by the "Something" in them, as Pope has it, "That gives us back the Image of our Mind." Although the perception of It must be excited by some extraordinary perturbation in the looks and personality of the adored, the aura that It broadcasts arises not merely from the singularity of an original, as Walter Benjamin supposed, but also from the fabulous success of its reproducibility in the imaginations of many others, charmed exponentially by the number of its copies. The one-of-kind item must become a type, a replicable role-icon of itself--from "a Charles Hart" or "a Nell Gwyn" to "a Mary Pickford" or "a Douglas Fairbanks"--in order to unleash the Pygmalion effect in the hearts and minds of the fans, making the idea of him or her theirs--as much or more than anything else they might call their own. — Joseph Roach

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws — Plato

Aspirin will not bring dead hookers back to life. — Dave Attell

are like sherry in crystal, and — Diana Gabaldon

Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret. — Shannon L. Alder

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head. — Samuel Rogers

I always made an awkward bow. — John Keats

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. — Havelock Ellis

So a good man can be a bad Christian?"
"I suppose so."
"Then a bad man," I said, "can be a good Christian? — Bernard Cornwell

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is. — Milton Berle

It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free. — George Lee Butler