Stanovick Quotes & Sayings

The process of dreaming transfers psychical intensity from what is important, but also objectionable, onto what is insignificant. — Sigmund Freud

I'm a passionate trade unionist. — Richard Attenborough

We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on. — Sarah Winter

The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking. — Nancy Kline

Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople. — Aaron Levie

You can do your best and then, if things don't go your way, still become unconstructively upset, in a way that hinders your ability to bounce back. Dropping the attachment is the real trick. — Dan Harris

We all make mistakes. We must keep finding the right paths. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! — Mordechai Anielewicz

When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward. — C.S. Lewis

And it is permissible to want to be alone temporarily to "get away from it all." But if one mentioned at a party that he liked to be alone, not for a rest or an escape, but for its own joys, people would think that something was vaguely wrong with him - that some pariah aura of untouchability or sickness hovered round him. And if a person is alone very much of the time, people tend to think of him as a failure, for it is inconceivable to them that he would choose to be alone. — Rollo May

Free will, that bitch of a thing. Given the freedom to choose, we human beings will always make the wrong choice, every damn time. — Gemma Files

Sadness enfolded her like a long black cape. p. 4 — Jennifer Donnelly

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do. — Bryan Clay

The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad. — Pyotr Kropotkin

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. — Thomas Huxley