Breakdown Quotes - Page 11

• This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

  Julian Jaynes

  Civilization, Mind, Population

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Thinking, Two, Three

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 2: "Student Years", p. 34, 1991.

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• If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns, breakdown of social order, water shortages, and outbreaks of bloodshed and disease.

  Margaret Atwood

  Water, Tomorrow, Riot

  Source: www.marandapleasantmedia.com

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• Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have avoided breakdowns if they had acted differently. We tend to see problems as having been created by someone else or by the "economy". It's good to be a little introspective from time to time. Think about how your own behavior might have gotten your company into a problem, and how it may help to get you out.

  James A. Champy

  Thinking, Leader, Helping

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• The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of people and backgrounds that became a common thing among artists in America. Many of the great artists in America, for example, came from Jewish families and backgrounds that fled all the way from Russia. It's remarkable, the great masters of American art and cinema who were coming from old roots in little villages there. And then Hollywood, and the haunting, hypnotic impact that American Cinema had throughout the world . . .

  Tony Shafrazi

  Art, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know."

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  Laughing, Care, Nervous

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, the cultural tapestry from which it's echoing, if you will. I often say it's the eyes of the poet's and the ears of the composer's. This narration is what fascinates me endlessly.

  Thomas Hampson

  Song, Eye, Language

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Airports, Mental Breakdown

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• I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

  Kate Bush

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "'I'm Not Some Weirdo Recluse'". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2005.

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• I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crazy, Stupid, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Color, People

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of the family really began and for whom The Smiths were something new and essential.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Taken, Osmosis, Feminism

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall. I was carrying it around to show my mom because I thought it was funny, and I forgot to show it to her and left the store carrying it. I had a complete nervous breakdown, like, 20 minutes later and went back to the store in tears. So that's where I stand in terms of my ability to steal something.

  Zoe Kazan

  Mom, Tears, Cards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Historical, Democracy, Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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