Top 13 Tavistock Quotes
#1. He's a filler. You know - stuff something into your heart quickly to stop it from cracking open.
#2. The answer to all of life's problems are out there somewhere its just a question of finding the right book
#3. I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new.
#4. If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
#5. 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
#6. My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.
#7. They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency.
#8. Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
#9. Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.
#10. The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.
#11. Fair or not, Tavistock Prowse would forever be saddled with blame for having allowed his use of high-frequency social media tools to get the better of his higher faculties.
#12. He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
#13. I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.