Schnarch Quotes

#1. I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.

Susanna White

#2. I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Kobe Bryant

#3. If you can't regulate your own emotional temperature, you'll regulate everyone around you to keep yourself comfortable.

David Schnarch

#4. For me too, the periodic table was a passion ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality.

Freeman Dyson

#5. You don't think your way to a new way of living. You live your way to a new way of thinking.

David Schnarch

#6. All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.

Joe Eszterhas

#7. For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.

David Schnarch

#8. Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient.

David Schnarch

#9. Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Rajneesh

#10. Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being.

David Schnarch

#11. When we allow our fears and insecurities to blind us momentarily, we're often tempted to make the gate narrower than God does.

Brian Houston

#12. In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

Adam McKay

#13. Everybody's damaged by something.

Emma Donoghue

#14. A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect.

David Schnarch

#15. If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains ... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.

Clayton Christensen

#16. The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project.

David Schnarch

#18. As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

Rafael Cruz

#19. Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy.

Donna Augustine

#20. She was all venom and claws now.

R. Scarlett