Procrustean Bed Quotes

#1. The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort

Ulf Wolf

#2. The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear - the simplification that distorts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

#4. Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

Milton H. Erickson

#5. The importance of knowing for certain that you have been saved cannot be understated. We do not know how many days, hours, or minutes God has granted us here to have an opportunity to make a choice.

Kimberly McRae

#6. Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

Horace Greeley

#7. The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

Sun Tzu

#8. The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#9. tradition is truer than fashion.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#11. Faith in a higher power helps us to control our mind and thoughts.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#12. Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Alistair Cooke

#13. Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.

David Pogue

#14. To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul
That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.

Sophocles

#15. Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

Brett Davern

#16. Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

Samuel R. Delany