Asch Quotes

#1. Disability scholars Andrienne Asch and Erik Parens, in their seminal discussion of the problem, wrote,'Pre-natal diagnosis reinforces the medical model that disability itself, not societal discrimination against people with disabilities, is the problem to be solved.

Andrew Solomon

#2. McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, et al. The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States.

Robert Wachter

#3. Other classic experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch show how adults readily adopt the opinion of others in simple tasks, such as matching a line to one of a set of other lines

Anonymous

#4. Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

Solomon Asch

#6. In short, it is madness. People try to manage their emotions by controlling external factors. Others let their emotions change based on what they experience outside of them. And none of it works. The truth is and has always been that you are in complete control of how you feel.

Dave Asch

#7. The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Sholem Asch

#8. God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

Sholem Asch

#9. The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

Roberto Unger

#10. Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Sholem Asch

#11. Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Sholem Asch

#12. I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

Abigail Breslin

#13. Don't be defined by the watch you use, the clothes you wear, and the car you drive. Be defined by your relationship with God.

Bo Sanchez

#14. Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

Sholem Asch

#15. Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now.

Zora Neale Hurston

#16. Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.

Solomon E. Asch

#17. The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. I prefer my lovers with a dick."
We are both in luck, because I just so happen to have one of those growing in my pants as we speak.

Aly Martinez

#19. Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

Sholem Asch

#20. Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Sholem Asch

#21. Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated ... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Solomon Asch

#22. Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

Sholem Asch

#23. The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Sholem Asch

#24. If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

Sholem Asch

#25. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch

#26. My friend says touche way too much. He's a touche bag.

Demetri Martin

#27. The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Sholem Asch

#28. The best security for old age: respect your children.

Sholem Asch

#29. Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

William Shatner

#30. Personality is the gland of creativity.

Sholem Asch

#31. You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

Gordon Bethune

#32. Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Sholem Asch

#33. My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

Jennifer Carpenter

#34. Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Sholem Asch

#35. Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

David Brooks

#36. An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

#37. I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

Sholem Asch

#38. The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

Solomon Asch