Top 100 Quotes About Lerner
#1. You know teenage boys, you own one-Mason Lerner
Natasha Larry
#2. There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to articulate the unspeakable and give voice to solutions.
K. Lee Lerner
K. Lee Lerner
#3. They would ask people to do
something that is wrong? I thought angels were ... " She stumbled, trying to
think of a word to describe her preconceived notion. "Angelic," Jaycie Lerner
Natasha Larry
#4. As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
Julie Burchill
#5. In Lerner's experiments, the desperate need to make sense of events can lead people to inaccurate conclusions (for example, a woman "led on" a rapist);
Jonathan Haidt
#6. Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.
Patrick Howley
#7. Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your unlimited power-Mason Lerner
Natasha Larry
#8. If I do decide to have a Girl's Gone Wild moment, I want it to be with some hot young thing, not a senior citizen-Jaycie Lerner
Natasha Larry
#9. Few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.
Leonard Mlodinow
#10. Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
Gloria Steinem
#11. Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
Alan Jay Lerner
#12. The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
Max Lerner
#13. venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals.
Harriet Lerner
#14. Women's history is the
primary tool for women's emancipation.
Gerda Lerner
#15. People say things die in winter, but it isn't true, mostly. They just gather their strength.
Rose Lerner
#16. [I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.
Betsy Lerner
#17. Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Max Lerner
#18. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.
Harriet Lerner
#19. Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
Edward M. Lerner
#20. The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
Jaime Lerner
#21. I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.
Betsy Lerner
#22. Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner
#23. Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.
Betsy Lerner
#24. Don't use "below-the-belt" tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Don't put the other person down.
Harriet Lerner
#25. There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
Max Lerner
#26. Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn't get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the encounter with its three-dimensionality.
Ben Lerner
#27. In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
#28. Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.
Ben Lerner
#29. I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
Edward M. Lerner
#30. A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
Max Lerner
#31. The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
Max Lerner
#32. What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
Max Lerner
#33. Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.
Michael Lerner
#34. Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.
Michael Lerner
#35. The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.
Harriet Lerner
#36. Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.
Ben Lerner
#37. Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.
Max Lerner
#38. Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.
Harriet Lerner
#39. If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
Ben Lerner
#40. I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'
Jaime Lerner
#41. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Max Lerner
#42. The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.
Harriet Lerner
#43. I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.
Ben Lerner
#44. Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.
Harriet Lerner
#45. Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
Sandra Lerner
#46. What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
Edward M. Lerner
#47. There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
Max Lerner
#48. Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner
#49. I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.
Ben Lerner
#50. Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
Edward M. Lerner
#51. We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Max Lerner
#52. Yet all of us are vulnerable to intense, nonproductive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family - in particular, losses and cutoffs.
Harriet Lerner
#53. I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.
Alan Jay Lerner
#54. Social media is an information channel; it's like radio or TV ... In Cisco, we made a lot of money on public protocol. I think the social media model replicates that protocol.
Sandra Lerner
#55. I believe she imbued my body thus, finding every touch enhanced by ambiguity of intention, as if it too required translation, and so each touch branched out, became a variety of touches.
Ben Lerner
#56. I don't want what we're doing to just end up as notes for a novel.
Ben Lerner
#57. Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
Max Lerner
#60. I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
Ben Lerner
#61. America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
Max Lerner
#62. I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former
Ben Lerner
#63. The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner
#64. When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I'd memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.
Ben Lerner
#65. I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
Alan Jay Lerner
#66. Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector.
Michael Lerner
#67. I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.
Edward M. Lerner
#68. I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.
Ben Lerner
#69. Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.
Harriet Lerner
#70. We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
Max Lerner
#71. We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
Jaime Lerner
#72. [There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.
Gerda Lerner
#73. When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
Max Lerner
#74. I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
Ben Lerner
#75. In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both
without losing either.
Harriet Lerner
#76. The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.
Ben Lerner
#77. Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Harriet Lerner
#78. There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.
Max Lerner
#79. The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.
Ben Lerner
#80. I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.
Betsy Lerner
#81. The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.
Edward M. Lerner
#82. Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.
Jaime Lerner
#83. There are three major issues now that are becoming important, not only for cities, but for all mankind: Mobility, sustainability - which is linked to mobility - and social diversity.
Jaime Lerner
#84. Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?
Ben Lerner
#85. Brazil will change when its cities change.
Jaime Lerner
#86. The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.
Sandra Lerner
#87. You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo.
Ben Lerner
#88. Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
Edward M. Lerner
#89. We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
Harriet Lerner
#90. The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
Alan Jay Lerner
#91. I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.
Ben Lerner
#92. I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined I was a passenger that could see me looking up at myself looking down.
Ben Lerner
#93. But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
Betsy Lerner
#94. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
#95. Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
Jaime Lerner
#96. It's the worst sort of snobbery to condemn a book without reading it, merely because it's popular.
Rose Lerner
#97. I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.
Ben Lerner
#98. I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.
Betsy Lerner
#99. If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.
Harriet Lerner
#100. Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet
Harriet Lerner
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