Regression famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
-- Alice Miller

#Adults #Able #Regression
Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.
-- Charlie Munger

#Mean #Mimicking #Regression
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.
-- Henri Nouwen

#Despair #Regression #Return
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression
-- Hjalmar Branting

#Years #May #Regression
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Men #Democracy #Regression
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
-- Richard John Neuhaus

#Thinking #Progress #Regression
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.
-- Robert Higgs

#Giving #Historical #Regression
To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.
-- Connie Zweig

#Growth #Development #Regression
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
-- Rosa Luxemburg

#Transition #Regression #Socialism

A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.
To run any system, you've got to grow your personnel and your players have to have a certain skill set.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.
People are getting tired of being constantly on edge. Maybe that means they do let down their guard or that they're complacent. What does it take to shake that? A 5% correction? A 10% one? Those kinds of declines are unfortunately something you put up with.