Salpetriere Quotes & Sayings

Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful. — Earl Nightingale

This study began in an exact and precise manner only with the labours of Professor Charcot at the Salpetriere, on the traumatic accidents of the hystericals: the paralyses, the contractures, mutisms, or anorexias. Everywhere, as we have seen, he showed the importance of the fixed idea which produced and kept up the accident, the reproduction of identical facts by suggestion, the treatment by isolation, and the moral influences which modified not the physical state, but the mental pathological state of the hysterical. It remained to generalise somewhat more this conception — Anonymous

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. — Albert Bushnell Hart

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. — Paul Theroux

When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear. — Erle Stanley Gardner

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators. — James Rosenquist

Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can't bring a metaphor to a gunfight. — Rudy Francisco

By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. — Wayne Dyer

One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic — J.K. Rowling

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete. — Lindsey Vonn

Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. — Terry Pratchett

I am extremely passionate about digital media and as a longtime user and fan of Yahoo! — Ross Levinsohn