Mythologize Quotes

#1. Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

Peter Thiel

#2. I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Anne Rice

#3. American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

Marcus Buckingham

#4. After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

Brian K. Vaughan

#5. I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don't do that with any other artists.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#6. Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

Ron Fournier

#7. The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

Ruth Kluger

#8. I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Timothy Leary

#9. You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

Joshua Michael Stern

#10. If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

#11. Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

Amy Hempel

#12. From a biblical perspective, salvation is a subcategory of revelation - or better, salvation is a consequence of revelation fully received.

Ellen F. Davis

#13. My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.
Permanently.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Every love outside of HIS love, is pain.

Rumi

#15. We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

G. M. Trevelyan

#16. Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Ben Elton

#17. It's very, very simple. You sit, either in a chair or on a prayer stool or mat, and allow your heart to open toward that invisible but always present Origin of all that exists.

Cynthia Bourgeault