"Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist."

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Source : Stanley Milgram (1992). “The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Stanley Milgram

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“There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.”
“The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”
“I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.”

Source : "Character: Police Captain". "Where the Boys Are", www.imdb.com. 1960.
“But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.”

Source : "Exclusive: TRON: LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinski on Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos, IMAX, Daft Punk B-Sides, Reshoots, and so Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2010.
“It's important not to make the gold medal bigger than it is.”
“There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.”
“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”

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