"Denial is a save now, pay later scheme."

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Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

Gavin de Becker

#Denial Quotes #Pay Quotes #Schemes Quotes

“Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.”
“Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.”
“Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.”
“It's a certain kind of human compact that obviously you lose as soon as there is a screen and a camera there, so I think we'll always have theater. I think theater will always be a powerful force because we need that human touch, particularly as we spend more and more time with machines, cell phones, computers we start to lose our humanity.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.”
“I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.”
“But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.”
“When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.”

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