"It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt."

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Source : Gardner Murphy (1947). “Personality”

Gardner Murphy

#Men Quotes #Pigs Quotes #Tree Quotes

“That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.”

Source : Jincy Willett (2009). “The Writing Class”, p.76, Macmillan
“The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.”

Source : "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.
“I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.”
“Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.”
“I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.”
“There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.”
“I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.”
“It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.”

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