Disturbance Quotes

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Albert Ellis

Children, School, Thinking

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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Denis Diderot

Design, Religion, Use

Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Inspirational, Fear, Business

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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

Punishment, Misunderstood, Possibility

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sadness, Reality, Men

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It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

Roger Ebert

White, People, House

Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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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

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Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad

Hjalmar Schacht

Country, Home, Economy

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From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Mary Cover Jones

Reading, Sight, Steps

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There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there

Michael Richards

Country, Vegas, New Orleans

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Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Li Peng

Leadership, Party, Support

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In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

Li Peng

Summer, Spring, Political

"Deng 'backed' Tiananmen crackdown". www.cnn.com. August 18, 2004.

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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow

Passion, Heart, Voice

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Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

Lucy Larcom

Feet, Play, Parent

Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

Fritz Kreisler

Order, Police, Relaxation

Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.12, Pickle Partners Publishing

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All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

L. Ron Hubbard

Philosophy, Trying, Teeth

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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life.

George Perkins Marsh

Life, Nature, Ocean

George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.103, New York : C. Scribner

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There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

Alfred Kinsey

Science, Expression, Understanding

Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, p.195, Indiana University Press

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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Vernon Howard

Powerful, Resistance

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In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.

Ivan Pavlov

Dog, Strong, Grief

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Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

Edward Jenks

Military, Successful, Long

Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius

Fear, Future, Adventure

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

Chris Lynch

Novelists, Way, Sometimes

Chris Lynch (2011). “Angry Young Man”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Camille Paglia

Self, Bipolar, Mental Health

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.103, Vintage

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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace, Mind, Reign

Ramana Maharshi, C. G. (FRW) Jung (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, Shambhala Pubns

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