Elizabeth Fishel Quotes

#1. Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

Elizabeth Fishel

#2. The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

Elizabeth Fishel

#3. What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Elizabeth Fishel

#4. Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

David Bohm

#5. One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

Richard Gregory

#6. Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Elizabeth Fishel

#7. We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

Elizabeth Fishel

#8. We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

Elizabeth Fishel

#9. The heart of a man to the heart of a maid-
Light of my tents, be fleet-
Morning awaits at the end of the world,
And the world is all at our feet.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.

Charles Bukowski

#11. Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.

Elizabeth Fishel

#12. I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Vance Havner

#13. Never rule anything out. Even the exact opposite of what you believe.

Stephanie Lennox

#14. Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Elizabeth Fishel

#15. The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic

Aesop Rock

#16. In a world of well-defined problems, directors are required to exercise influence over volatility, manage uncertainty, simplify complexity, and resolve ambiguity in the 21st-century digital environment.

Pearl Zhu

#17. From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

Elizabeth Fishel

#18. A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Phil McGraw

#19. They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

Chris LeDoux

#20. The important thing in running away is not how fast you run but simply that you run faster than the next man.

Mark Lawrence

#21. A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

Elizabeth Fishel

#22. The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#23. It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

Eugene Delacroix