Heroic Quotes - Page 9

• I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Work, Integrity, Body

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• Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Power, Noble

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• The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Evil, Lines

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Knowing Better, Evil

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• Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, Variables

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• One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Psychological, Process

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

  Hugo Weaving

  Character, Play, Rooms

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• I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, People, Battle

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• I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

  Alan Moore

  Dream, Adventure, Character

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• One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Hero, Dying

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• In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Materials, Has Beens

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• It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

  Louis Pasteur

  Motivational, Hero, Remembrance

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• Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Time, Gentleman

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

  Francois Rabelais

  Believe, Stewardship, Virtue

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• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  Ja Rule

  Beverly Hills, Cop, Breaths

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Children, Grace

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Loner, Force Of Will

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• In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

  Dean Koontz

  Hero, Sacrifice, Self

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.607, Bantam

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• There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

  Annie Dillard

  Generations, Chickens, Pure

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.70, Vintage

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• To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suffering, Masochistic

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• Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Destiny, Knights

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

  Alberto Manguel

  Dream, Engineering, Law

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.10, Vintage Canada

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• Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

  Philip Roth

  Fun, Games, Faces

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Mar 19, 2013

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