Top 100 Quotes About Adler
#1. The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer Adler
#2. Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
Alfred Adler
#5. Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.
Freda Adler
#6. If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
Mortimer J. Adler
#7. Remember Bacon's recommendation to the reader: Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Mortimer J. Adler
#8. Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
Freda Adler
#9. Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Alfred Adler
#10. Auntie Elli, why are you open-mouth kissing Big Daddy Adler?
*Well, shit*
Toni Aleo
#11. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?
Renata Adler
#12. Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#13. It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler
#14. Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.
Steven Adler
#15. Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
Mortimer Adler
#16. I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.
Steven Strait
#17. Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
Renata Adler
#18. Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.
Trip Adler
#19. The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.
Felix Adler
#20. I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.
Steven Adler
#21. Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.
Jonathan Adler
#22. Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Renata Adler
#23. Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.
Mortimer J. Adler
#24. GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.
Steven Adler
#25. She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory.
yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's the good stable arseholes like us who are remembered best.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#26. The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.
Mortimer J. Adler
#27. Actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.
Stella Adler
#28. You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.
Stella Adler
#29. It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
Stella Adler
#30. I drove five hours to see you once and I'll do it again and again and again if I have to. Just...I want to be with you. Wherever you decide to go, I'll come find you.
Dahlia Adler
#31. And then I opened the door to my room and saw you standing there in the parking lot, in the rain, and I just thought, 'This. This is what the perfect time feels like. It's not about the milestones; its about the person.
Dahlia Adler
#32. From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.
Mortimer J. Adler
#33. Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
Renata Adler
#34. 'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.
David A. Adler
#36. Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study ... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job.
Stella Adler
#37. It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
Alfred Adler
#38. You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give up. I wouldn't give up. I didn't give up - or doubt myself - in becoming a successful musician with a successful band.
Steven Adler
#39. Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Mortimer Adler
#40. It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast
easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.
Alfred Adler
#41. It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Alfred Adler
#42. The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
Alfred Adler
#43. The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.
Trip Adler
#44. I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.
Steven Adler
#45. I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.
Steven Adler
#46. If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess
Mortimer J. Adler
#48. Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler
#49. Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Felix Adler
#50. My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.
Mortimer Adler
#51. Never be daunted in public' was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I changed it resolutely to 'Never be daunted in private'.
- M.F.K. Fisher A Is for Dining Alone
Jenni Ferrari-Adler
#52. Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
Harvey Keitel
#53. And can you get this girl something with a laxative effect?" I add to the waitress, refusing to spare Sophie a glance as I slide my menu back into place. "My treat. I just can't stand to see someone so full of shit, you know? Especially when her boyfriend keeps feeding her more of it.
Dahlia Adler
#54. The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix Adler
#56. You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.
Stella Adler
#57. The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler
#58. The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.
Renata Adler
#59. My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind - like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
Renata Adler
#60. Say it again."
She giggled before she said, "I love you."
"Oh, baby, I love you. More than you'll ever know.
Toni Aleo
#61. Good." His eyes flash fire. "Now ride me like a fucking pony.
Dahlia Adler
#63. Probably Darren Criss, yeah, we've become close friends.
Max Adler
#64. Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.
Hermann Adler
#65. Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
Alfred Adler
#66. Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler
#67. So, I suppose you just have a sense of where it is. And you don't have to be precise, is that it?"
"Allah is great. He has such wide shoulders."
Carl stuck out his lower lip in a pout. Of course Allah did. What was he thinking, anyway?
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#68. What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
Alfred Adler
#69. This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.
Alfred Adler
#71. Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler
#72. We [with Cisco Adler] came back to the concept that our music, our lifestyle, and what we stood for was dope. So whoever the show brought to the music, they would stick. It was a way to bring people to the music, and I'm still doing that.
Shwayze
#73. In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
Renata Adler
#74. Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
Alfred Adler
#75. I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.
Stella Adler
#76. Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
Mortimer J. Adler
#77. There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.
Mortimer J. Adler
#78. I can't believe you just did that,: I say when I can finally breathe again.
"I can't believe I didn't do it before now," he counters.
Dahlia Adler
#79. If the Police could do a reunion ... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.
Steven Adler
#80. Some people catch all the breaks, and the rest of us eat too many tamales.
Rebecca Adler
#81. (I'm sorry, but the guy breastfed until he was four. That's beyond being "old enough to ask for it" and practically into being "old enough to make your own breakfast.")
Dahlia Adler
#82. Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
Mortimer Adler
#83. One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
Mortimer Adler
#84. The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.
Warren Adler
#85. One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While
Mortimer J. Adler
#86. There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all sophomores.
Mortimer J. Adler
#87. People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.
Jonathan Adler
#88. There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.
Renata Adler
#89. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Adler
#90. I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction', we all knew.
Steven Adler
#91. We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model.
Trip Adler
#93. Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence.
They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
Mortimer Adler
#94. Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.
Mortimer J. Adler
#95. The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.
Steven Adler
#96. It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
Freda Adler
#97. I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.
Steven Adler
#98. Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.
Alfred Adler
#99. We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
Mortimer Adler
#100. Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
Alfred Adler
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