"Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate."

-- Stanislav Grof

#Tabula Rasa Quotes #Superficial Quotes #Born Quotes

“Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?”
“I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them”
“Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.”
“No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 5, 2009.
“Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.”
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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