Top 100 Quotes About Irvin
#2. The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.
Donald Faison
#3. I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone ... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.
Louis Nowra
#4. And that Michael Irvin would care more about his wardrobe than I would?
Lisa Guerrero
#5. the initial ID is George Thomas Irving. Age forty-six of eight - " "Irving as in Irvin Irving? As in Councilman Irvin Irving?" "Scourge of the LAPD in general and one Detective Harry Bosch in particular.
Michael Connelly
#6. I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.
Joe R. Lansdale
#7. To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation.
Irvin D. Yalom
#8. Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I'd love to be able to eat with my eyes - I'm
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#9. The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.
Michael Irvin
#10. I'm not ready for a committed relationship with anyone and that I have a ton of work to do on myself.
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#11. It's no great mystery. If no one will listen, it's only natural to shout!
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#13. Perhaps the real therapy occurred at the deathbed scene, when they moved into honesty with the revelation that they were fellow travelers, both simply human, all too human.
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#14. I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?
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#15. more commonly death anxiety surfaces in nightmares. A
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#16. I remain convinced that a therapist's judicious self-disclosure facilitates the course of therapy. Love's
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#17. One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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#18. With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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#19. To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator.
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#20. She attempted to deal with her terror in a most ineffective and magical mode-a mode that I have seen many patients use: she attempted to elude death by refusing to live.
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#21. I'm looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires,
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#22. A dufus? You married a dufus?"
"Jah, but he's my dufus and I love him.
Kelly Irvin
#23. I'm taking T.O., every day ... He gives me the whole football field.
Michael Irvin
#24. Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness - it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.
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#25. The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else ...
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#26. Ask yourself, 'Who are the secure ones, the comfortable, the eternally cheerful?' I'll tell you the answer: only those with dull vision-the common people and the children
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#27. If we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility - that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to their distress.
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#28. In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.
Nell Irvin Painter
#29. Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
Irvin Kershner
#30. Perhaps," said Nietzsche, "only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman.
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#32. Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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#33. Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.
Irvin S. Cobb
#34. Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
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#35. Sex as the vital antagonist to death - isn't the orgasm the primal spark of life? I know of many instances in which sexual feelings arise in order to neutralize fears of death.
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#36. A person of high, rare mental gifts who is forced into a job which is merely useful is like a valuable vase decorated with the most beautiful painting and then used as a kitchen pot.
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#37. We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.
Michael Irvin
#38. The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely.
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#39. What has been given is a new perspective on living life, and what has been taken away is the illusion of limitless life and the belief in a personal specialness exempting us from natural law.
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#40. My task as a therapist (not unlike that of a parent) is to make myself obsolete - to help a patient become his or her own mother and father
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#41. One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety.
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#42. their breasts swelling into powerful, magical globes - when he was overcome by an extraordinary craving to merge with their bodies, to suckle at their nipples, to slip into their warmth and wetness.
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#44. Every act is not necessarily a message about the relationship.
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#45. As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.
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#46. Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.
Monte Irvin
#47. You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.
Michael Irvin
#48. I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.
Michael Irvin
#49. I have noted two particularly powerful and common methods of allaying fears about death, two beliefs, or delusions, that afford a sense of safety. One is the belief in personal specialness; the other, the belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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#51. After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
Irvin Kershner
#52. The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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#53. It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process, what do they remember? Never the ideas - it's always the relationship.
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#54. The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.
Michael Irvin
#55. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating or killing other options (the root of the word decide means "slay," as in homicide or suicide).
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#56. For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours ... this marvelous, blessed game ... and we just went out and played it.
Monte Irvin
#57. The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
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#58. The human being either asserts autonomy by heroic self-assertion or seeks safety through fusing with a superior force: that is, one either emerges or merges, separates or embeds. One becomes one's own parent or remains the eternal child.
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#59. Do not mistake awkwardness for callousness. Remember, I am a solitary person, as I warned you. I'm not accustomed to easy and warm social exchange.
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#60. will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.
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#61. I wonder if you can ever be at home anywhere, because home is not a place
it's a state of mind. Really being at home is feeling at home in your own skin ... Perhaps you have been searching for home in the wrong place all your life.
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#62. It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.
Monte Irvin
#63. Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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#64. I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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#66. Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum.
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#67. Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.
Irvin S. Cobb
#68. As a general rule, the less one's sense of life fulfillment, the greater one's death anxiety.
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#69. To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
Irvin S. Cobb
#70. If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
Irvin S. Cobb
#71. Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of relating to, and caring for, one another, one person uses another as a shield against isolation. A
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#72. He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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#73. I'm listening. Sometimes I see better with closed eyes.
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#74. Look out the other's window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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#75. But you, like me, have good eyes. You looked too far into life. You saw that it was futile to reach wrong goals and futile to set new wrong goals. Multiplications of zero are always zero!" Breuer
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#76. Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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#77. I should have become an "I" before I became a "we".
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#78. I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
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#79. 'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.
Michael Irvin
#80. Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
Irvin Kershner
#81. I have others who rob me of my solitude, and yet do not truly offer me company.
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#82. Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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#83. Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated.
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#84. What have your scholarly investigations shown you?" No
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#85. The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time.
Monte Irvin
#86. The more the therapist is able to tolerate the anxiety of not knowing, the less need there is for the therapist to embrace orthodoxy.
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#87. It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.
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#88. Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
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#89. I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.
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#90. Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
Irvin S. Cobb
#91. The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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#93. If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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#94. Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we're not animal trainers!" "Yes,
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#95. Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns
fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns
seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.
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#96. My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.
Michael Irvin
#97. If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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#98. I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
Irvin Kershner
#99. If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!
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#100. I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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