David Rosenhan Quotes

#1. Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. - DAVID ROSENHAN,

Jon Ronson

#2. The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.

Chris Hedges

#3. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE, in a letter

Susan Sontag

#4. The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.

Sam Hawksmoor

#5. For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instills,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which over flows
To lift us with him as he goes.

George Meredith

#6. You have to take responsibility and become the architect of your own success by learning what it takes to navigate the twists and turns of a long career, because if you don't take responsibility for your own success, nothing will happen.

Martin Yate

#7. The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Herman Melville

#8. I eat smart - I do think that's the sort of thing that will eventually show up in the condition of your skin, your hair, and your nails, and your own feeling about yourself.

Meredith Vieira

#9. That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

Gene Veith

#10. Not that the clear perception of certain weaknesses in those whom we love in any way diminishes our affection for them; rather that affection makes us find those weaknesses charming.

Marcel Proust

#11. Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

Seanan McGuire

#12. Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.

George Jonas

#13. The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

David Rosenhan

#14. We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

John McEnroe

#15. I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.

Javier Bardem

#16. What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Carlo Collodi

#17. Live, Breathe, Connect, Create!

Michele Jennae