Ontogenetically And Phylogenetically Quotes

#1. Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically.

Sigmund Freud

#2. My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Diane Keaton

#3. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness ... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

Martin Scorsese

#5. They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

Gerald Massey

#6. It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.

Edgar Wright

#7. Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

Michael Pollan

#8. There are a lot of politicians who are just obstructionists.

Marc Benioff

#9. I woke up the next afternoon cotton-mouthed with a splitting, and I do mean splitting, headache. When I raised my head, I half expected to leave large chunks of it on my pillow, like a broken melon.
Sorry. It was a really bad headache.

Cate Tiernan

#10. Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

Nataly Kelly

#11. Lavender in the hut, fertility beads under the mattress, a dreamcatcher by the plunge pool, oyster appetizers every afternoon, and a Michael Bolton love mix.

Rachel Van Dyken

#12. I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.

LaVell Edwards