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Alexander Lowen Quotes

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'

Alexander Lowen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 23, 1910 - October 28, 2008

Topics

Motto Action Generation Feel Person

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Angus Deaton

Life Time Money People Worry Enough

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

America Ferrera

Women Beautiful Me Curves Kind Real

When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?

Stephen Malkmus

Behavior You Acting Young More Old

I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?

Si Robertson

Live God Relationship Doctor You

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too.

Simon Schama

Early Late Temple Remembering Built

You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.

Robert Zubrin

People Control Mission You Earth

For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.

Mike D

New York Me Growing Up Remember Bad

In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

Diana Gabaldon

Nice Rebellion Dramatic Event Seems

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

William Greider

You Country Say Anything Just Like

To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.

Sy Montgomery

Myself Kiss Me Strong Someone Skin

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Pope Francis

Son God Children Men Brotherhood

I consider myself hugely privileged to work at such a wonderful place as Ashdown, where I can step back into history and be inspired by both the setting and the people associated with it.

Nicola Cornick

Work History Myself Step People