Irvin D. Yalom
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YALOM I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique st... IRVIN D. YALOM Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the... IRVIN D. YALOM The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility,... IRVIN D. YALOM I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's ve... IRVIN D. YALOM I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and... IRVIN D. YALOM I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave e... IRVIN D. YALOM If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. IRVIN D. YALOM Every person must choose how much truth he can stand. IRVIN D. YALOM We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work ... IRVIN D. 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YALOM One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety. IRVIN D. YALOM It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet ... IRVIN MAYFIELD I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life. IRVIN MAYFIELD I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the ... IRVIN MAYFIELD One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classi... IRVIN MAYFIELD The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its ince... IRVIN MAYFIELD I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot... IRVIN MAYFIELD Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and bei... 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IRVIN KERSHNER I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about. IRVIN KERSHNER I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feeli... IRVIN KERSHNER I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn'... IRVIN KERSHNER Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a perso... MONTE IRVIN There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face. IRVIN KERSHNER In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected m... IRVIN KERSHNER I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always to... MONTE IRVIN I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit... MICHAEL IRVIN My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome.... MICHAEL IRVIN Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than whe... MONTE IRVIN I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a p... MONTE IRVIN Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie ... MONTE IRVIN I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restauran... MONTE IRVIN I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the C... MICHAEL IRVIN A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is... IRVIN MAYFIELD For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new ... MONTE IRVIN Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? ... MONTE IRVIN We've got insurance. That'll help. 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MICHAEL IRVIN I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived. MONTE IRVIN My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really ... MONTE IRVIN I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Jos... MONTE IRVIN The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a l... MONTE IRVIN It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on ou... MONTE IRVIN Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!IRVIN KAUFFMAN Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument! IRVIN KAUFFMAN Teach we must, for we owe all that we are to all those who have been and all that we have to those w... IRVIN KAUFFMAN Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!IRVIN KAUFFMAN Do it right the first time, because "Practice makes PERMANENT!" IRVIN KAUFFMAN Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and h... MONTE IRVIN Carver did a nice job on the offensive boards early. DEXTER IRVIN I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way ... MICHAEL IRVIN I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me.... MICHAEL IRVIN I said it to Drew in my brash, young, ignorant way, I don't know who it is know, but I know who will... MICHAEL IRVIN I'm surprised the New England Patriots didn't take the decision out of his hands. As soon as this th... MICHAEL IRVIN I am not a player anymore. MICHAEL IRVIN Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man. MICHAEL IRVIN There's no existing scenario that has any time frame connected to it. 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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan. 
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science ... 
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised... 
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because ... 
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one... 
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a... 
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r... 
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ... 
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror... 
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... 
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... 
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,... 
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I&#... 
My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk ... 
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. 
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl... 
If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it&... 
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite scienc... 
Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reac... 
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors a... 
I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that ... 
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from... 
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the enterta... 
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. 
'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite movie of all time. 
I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want... 
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help cr... 
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... 
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction... 
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just mons... 
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ... 
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never... 
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all ess... 
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got ... 
When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have t... 
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all a... 
The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my charac... 
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when ... 
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and sudde... 
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I d... 
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. 
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll ... 
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villai... 
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether th... 
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. 
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. 
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces.... 
The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air... 
A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack... 
Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion ... 
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ... 
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe... 
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess... 