Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

Robert Jay Lifton

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

Martha Beck

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Julian Barnes

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

Mark E. Smith

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

Mel Brooks

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Terence McKenna

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Eric Idle

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

James Franco

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

Andre Agassi

It's quite ironic that it turned out that way,

Bobby Plump

It's sort of ironic that it's in Indianapolis ? a little place that we had a little success.

Michael Harrison

It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.

Joe Moore

It's ironic to me that this is being contemplated at the same time the 65 percent rule is being discussed. If you're trying to put more money into classrooms, why would you put more money into overhead and administrative costs?

Margaret Thatcher

I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

Rose McGowan

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

Narendra Modi

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

Narendra Modi

Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.

Narendra Modi

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Narendra Modi

They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by Gautam Buddha this century cannot be an Asian century!

Martha Beck

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

Myles Munroe

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

Sheryl WuDunn

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

Charles Bukowski

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.