Lionel Tiger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Play #Needs #Way
Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Business #Ethics #Economics
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology evolved in association with this diet. The balanced diet for our species was what we could acquire then, not what the government and doctors tell us to eat now.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Vegetables #Years #Nuts
There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Illumination #Anxiety #Wish
To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Thinking #Law #Argument
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Inspirational #Past #Years
You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Enthusiasm #Bears #Barrels
No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Mean #Men #Emotional
Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.
-- Lionel Tiger

#Passion #Animal #Thinking

I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Lionel Tiger famous quotes

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