Procrustean Quotes

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Felix Frankfurter

#3. 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

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

Ulf Wolf

#5. Plane-change maneuvers are expensive.

Neal Stephenson

#6. I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

Channing Tatum

#7. Happiness is always replacing by loneliness.even you do everything to be Happy but there are so many people around that some of them will cheer you and some of them makes you dawn.

O.v Grace

#8. Let go of the past. Let go of the future. Let go of the present. Proceed to the opposite shore with a free mind, leaving behind all conditioned things.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

Vonda Shepard

#10. For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

Kool Moe Dee

#11. So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

Ken Follett

#12. A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.

Feroz Bham

#13. So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#14. I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so ... that's about it.

George Murray

#15. Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

Jonathan Smith

#16. Oys by civil calculations, we had by now roughed up the swami and slept where the elephant shits, Shocking us would have required some kind of genius.
Woe To Live On

Daniel Woodrell

#17. Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.

Stephen Chbosky

#18. When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.

Ian Somerhalder