Top 100 Becker Quotes
#1. The institutions of psychiatry, law enforcement, and goverment have proved that no matter what our resources, you cannot reliable control the conduct of CRAZY PEOPLE. It is not fair, but it is so
Gavin De Becker
#2. The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.
Carl Becker
#3. I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Walter Becker
#4. There are interviewers who try to trip up the candidate," says Hanold. "If you make people do intellectual gymnastics, you're not getting their true self. There is no right answer to any question I ask. I want an authentic response." To
Ethan F. Becker
#5. The real world is simply too terrible to admit.
it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.
Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe.
immortal in some ways
Ernest Becker
#6. The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.
Ernest Becker
#7. To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
Ernest Becker
#8. Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.
Carl L. Becker
#11. Embracing a life content with fewer possessions has modeled for them the important truths that personal belongings are not the key to happiness, that security is found in their character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions.
Joshua Becker
#12. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.
Gavin De Becker
#13. Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?
Boris Becker
#14. Jesus was not white, hey, he was a black man. Like our pig man, Mzwaki. All the Bible people were dark people.
Jonah Becker
#15. Intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart
Gavin De Becker
#16. Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.
Jurgen Klopp
#17. Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like
Sylvia Becker-Hill
#18. A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?
Liz Becker
#19. No is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.
Gavin De Becker
#20. I know she is of the Devil, for I cannot have my mind from her." From trial transcript of accuser of Mary Bliss Parsons.
Kathy-Ann Becker
#21. Minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.
Joshua Becker
#22. Stop trying to impress others with your stuff and start trying to impress them with your life.
Joshua Becker
#23. monitors were shut down when the offices were closed.
James Becker
#24. We own too much stuff. And it is stealing our joy.
Joshua Becker
#26. Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.
Liz Becker
#27. Love your imagination for it is the heart of your creativity.
Harold W. Becker
#28. A person (or an animal) who feels there are no alternatives will fight even when violence isn't justified, even when the consequences are perceived as unfavorable, and even when the ability to prevail is low.
Gavin De Becker
#29. Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long ...
Gavin De Becker
#30. Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,
Gavin De Becker
#31. My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
Walter Becker
#32. mobs will be kept at bay, since they cannot climb ladders! Save
Malcolm Becker
#33. Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic
Gavin De Becker
#34. An unhappy child not getting comfort or support at home will look for it somewhere else. Next
Gavin De Becker
#35. Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.
Marty Becker
#37. Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.
Josh Becker
#38. Becca had only had to deal with technology and administration issues and had thus far been removed from danger while she was in training for the more serious assignments. As the newest, and smallest, employee at the Society, she was too young and innocent to face the grim reality, anyway.
Anne Marie Becker
#39. Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
Gavin De Becker
#40. I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
Boris Becker
#41. In fact, if perceived as a rude woman, you are far less attractive a target than a polite one.
Gavin De Becker
#42. Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
Boris Becker
#43. ...and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?
Stephen Becker
#44. To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams.
Ernest Becker
#46. If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
Boris Becker
#47. I've been doing mostly independent films, and things like 'Goal' give me a chance to have more options.
Kuno Becker
#48. Perhaps the most admirable reason to seek rapport would be to put someone at ease, but if that is a stranger's entire intent, a far simpler way is to just leave the woman alone. Charm
Gavin De Becker
#49. Your suspicion alone is more than enough justification for preventing time alone with your child. You
Gavin De Becker
#50. We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one's whole situation ... We don't want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives.
Ernest Becker
#51. a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet known
Carl Becker
#54. violence is committed by people who look and act like people,
Gavin De Becker
#55. Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
Ernest Becker
#56. Know your own child's behaviors and look deeper to find their meaning. Be the expert for your child. Discover the wonderful.
Liz Becker
#57. All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
Carl Lotus Becker
#58. Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.
Ernest Becker
#60. Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
Ernest Becker
#61. To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
Carl L. Becker
#62. Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.
Robert O. Becker
#63. If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.
Ernest Becker
#65. I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
Gavin De Becker
#66. We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.
Ernest Becker
#67. Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.
Howard S. Becker
#68. From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. - LEO TOLSTOI
Ernest Becker
#69. I encourage women to ask other women for help when they need it, and it's likewise safer to accept an offer from a woman than from a man. (Unfortunately, women rarely make such offers to other women, and I wish more would.) I
Gavin De Becker
#70. The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.
Boris Becker
#72. Gage sighed. "This team was a whole hell of a lot easier to run before any of us had ever heard about The One. You know that, right?"
Maybe." Becker grinned. "But it wasn't nearly as interesting.
Paige Tyler
#73. The American Dream has been defined in dollar signs and square footage.
Joshua Becker
#74. Every time you are not practicing someone else is.
Boris Becker
#75. a good exercise when worrying is to ask yourself, What am I choosing not to see right now? Worry may well be distracting you from something important. For
Gavin De Becker
#76. If you must masturbate, you have already failed
Josh Becker
#78. ...All they were interested in was where she planned to get her tattoo.
"You're just going to have to use your imagination," she told them.
Cooper snorted. "Becker is screwed then. He doesn't have any imagination.
Paige Tyler
#79. You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.
Josh Becker
#80. Simplicity slows down life and frees us from this modern hysteria to live faster. It finds freedom to disengage.
Joshua Becker
#81. A woman is expected, first and foremost, to respond to every communication from a man.
Gavin De Becker
#82. Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Gary Becker
#83. Your life is far too valuable to be wasted on the life that everyone else is choosing.
Joshua Becker
#84. Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
Carl Lotus Becker
#85. We loved each other and sometimes we loved other people, but we had no respect for the institution of marriage.
Alice Becker-Ho
#86. If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it ... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.
Ernest Becker
#88. I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour
Gary Becker
#89. One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.
Ernest Becker
#90. Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
Ernest Becker
#91. History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
Carl L. Becker
#94. The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.
Ernest Becker
#98. There is no mystery of human behavior that cannot be solved inside your head or your heart.
Gavin De Becker
#99. When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
Boris Becker
#100. Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
Ernest Becker
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