Willard Gaylin Quotes

#1. The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

Ramana Maharshi

#2. Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

Willard Gaylin

#3. Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Willard Gaylin

#4. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college
the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

Willard Gaylin

#6. Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.

Walker Percy

#7. Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

Mike Birbiglia

#8. What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#9. We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

Willard Gaylin

#10. We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.

Willard Gaylin

#11. From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

Colson Whitehead

#12. To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

Willard Gaylin

#13. A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

Willard Gaylin

#14. When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Peter Mullan

#15. We are what we seem to be.

Willard Gaylin

#16. Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

Willard Gaylin

#17. We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Jeremy Corbyn

#18. By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

Lynn Shelton

#19. Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

Willard Gaylin

#20. It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

Steve James

#21. Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

Willard Gaylin

#22. The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Mitch McConnell

#23. Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

Willard Gaylin

#24. The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

Willard Gaylin

#25. In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

Willard Gaylin

#26. ... The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise.

Benjamin Graham

#27. English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.

Willard Gaylin

#28. Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

Willard Gaylin

#29. Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

Willard Gaylin

#30. All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

Willard Gaylin

#31. Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

Willard Gaylin

#32. Put your manuscript down, I'd recommend at least two months. Six would be ideal. You really need to get away from it long enough to change your mindset. Unless you have a photographic memory, this technique will work. You'll transform into the one thing you crave feedback from: a reader.

A.J. Flowers

#33. A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

Willard Gaylin

#34. When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness
an incompleteness
in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.

Willard Gaylin

#35. It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

Laura Marling

#36. Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man.
They don't make memories like that anymore

Kurt Vonnegut