Tavistock Institute Quotes

#1. These were not people you could disagree with. If you disagreed, you were wrong."
Juliet Hopkins, Tavistock Institute, as quoted in Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love By Robert Karen

Juliet Hopkins

#2. [According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products were lettuce and pickles and the main energy resource of the world were in central Africa.

Noam Chomsky

#3. The diversity of this man staggers me completely. This man is a brutal, demanding sex Lord in one breath, and a tender, gentle lover in the next. I love all elements of him, every single one.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#4. They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#5. I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.

Letitia Baldrige

#6. The more we loved, the more we lost ourselves.

Karen White

#7. One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

Jeff Goodell

#8. Haters are my motivators

Ellen DeGeneres

#9. If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

Paco De Lucia

#10. A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

W.G. Sebald

#11. If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools help students to paint it that way.

Alexandra Robbins

#12. That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.

Victoria Moran

#13. It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people.

Rush Limbaugh

#14. I write very slowly.

Carla Bley

#15. Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

Jonathan Carroll