"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."

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Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.320, Routledge

Edward Thorndike

#Animal Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I am a man who has spent more than half a century ostensibly and visibly accompanying Yves Saint Laurent throughout his life - but not only that. In the past and still today, I have been behind a lot of creators and artists, supporting them and helping them. That's probably how I see my mission.”
“As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.”
“there are no knights on white horses, no magical grandmothers in the sky watching, waiting to rescue us. Teachers may come our way, but they will not rescue. They will teach. People who care will come, but they will not rescue. They will care. Help will come, but help is not rescuing. We are our own rescuers. Our relationships will improve dramatically when we stop rescuing others and stop expecting them to rescue us.”
“If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.”
“I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.”
“If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.”
“Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.”
“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”

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