"The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism"

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Carl Rogers

#Strive Quotes #Tendencies Quotes

“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”

Source : "Meaning and Understanding". Book by Herman Parret and ‎Jacques Bouveresse, p. 186, "Radical interpretation", 1981.
“George Smith shows how many of the prophetâ€™s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice â€¦ [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.”
“Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.”
“I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.”
“Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built”

Source : "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.
“Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.”
“All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.”
“A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.”

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