George Herbert Mead Quotes

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

George Herbert Mead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1863 - April 26, 1931

Topics

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I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

Robert Lepage

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When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

John Ridley

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I'm impressionable, that's for sure.

Sia

Sure

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

Mireille Enos

FindingNamesTrackWorkingBeen

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

Annie Besant

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I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Ashthon Jones

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I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.

Sharon Creech

FamilyPeopleMeBookWoodsYoung

Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.

Scottie Pippen

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I love to sing.

Tim Curry

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The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Richard P. Feynman

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When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years.

Hugh Grant

PeopleThoughtBetterYearBadMore

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Ella Maillart

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