Negating Quotes

#1. These assumptions lead progressives into other traps: assuming that hard facts will persuade voters, that voters are "rational" and vote in their self-interest and on the issues, and that negating a frame is an effective way to argue against it. 5.

George Lakoff

#2. I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

#3. I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

Rob Chapman

#4. Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.

Rollo May

#5. Concocting a statement that you have trouble believing in the first place (such as "A herring is a mammal"), and then negating it, requires two bouts of cognitive heavy lifting rather than one.

Steven Pinker

#6. More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures ... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.

Nitin Sawhney

#7. We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art ... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.

Carl Jung

#8. Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.

Rajneesh

#9. The existence of strict moral principles has invariably
signified that the biological, and specifically the sexual
needs of man were not being satisfied. Every moral regulation is in itself sex-negating, and all compulsory morality is life-negating.

Wilhelm Reich

#10. One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

Iyanla Vanzant

#11. Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

Arnold Aronson

#12. What his time spent with women offered was the opportunity 2 be embraced by reality on the one hand, while negating it entirely on the other

Haruki Murakami

#13. Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.

Michelle Grabner

#14. Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it ... if we just take a look at it.

Krishna Das

#15. anarchism is to Marxism-Leninism what Anabaptism was to the magisterial Reformation: a revolutionary movement predicated upon negating, rather than seizing control of, state power.

Mark Van Steenwyk

#16. Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.

Martin Heidegger

#17. It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.

Margery Sharp

#18. Men on the surface of a planet are as helpless against men in spaceships as a man would be trying to conduct a rock-throwing fight from the bottom of a well. The man at the top of the well has gravity working for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.

Cormac McCarthy

#20. Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

Andrea Camilleri

#21. What you are is a question only you can answer.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#22. Now think of it this way: which do you think would be better for Dottie, havin' ten thousand dollars so maybe she could go to that Amazon school, or havin' a beat-up, old, ugly, naggy, alcoholic

Tracy Letts

#23. Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

Harry S. Truman