Theoretical Orientation Quotes

#1. Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

Erving Polster

#2. Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.

Robin Williams

#4. There's no point in clinging to illusions.

Eva Heller

#5. Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Charles Stross

#6. The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.

Sabrina Bryan

#7. My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

Armando Iannucci

#8. You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.

Karen Armstrong

#9. How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?

A.M. Homes

#10. To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#11. If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.

Ayn Rand

#12. We are all born, and then we die. Make sure you enjoy yourself while on this earth.

Mpho Koaho

#13. I can move objects with my mind ... if I use my hands!

Demetri Martin

#14. At the same time, Job's friends offer no real help. They come to "comfort" him (2:11), but Job ends up declaring them "miserable comforters" who would "comfort" him "with empty nothings" (21:34).

Anonymous

#15. No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

Howard Dean

#16. Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Karl Rove