Human Condition Quotes - Page 19

• The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

  Roger Ebert

  Arguing, Film, Young

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.258, Crown Archetype

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• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  Ben Yagoda

  Children, Effectiveness, Order

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• A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Police, Humanity

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• I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Daughter, Halloween, School

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• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  J.H. Wyman

  Stories, Humans, Conditions

  "Fringe Showrunner J.h. Wyman Talks About the Final Episodes". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. December 5, 2012.

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• One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

  Tom Skerritt

  Responsibility, People, Directors

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• Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

  Rollo May

  Worry, Boredom, Anxiety

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• The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Humanity, Aspiration, Turns

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• For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.

  Clare Short

  Technology, People, Development

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• How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Earth, Littles, Slipping

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• The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.

  Charlize Theron

  Fun, People, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Evil, Ambitious

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• Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

  John C. McGinley

  Art, Oxygen, Mind

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• Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Topics, Conversation, Faster

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• Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

  Millard Sheets

  Art, Humans, Conditions

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• The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

  Ken Danby

  Technology, World, Ability

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• I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Dark, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loneliness, Two, Solitude

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• If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Men, Progress

  "The Unity of the Free World". Book by Barbara Ward, p. 12, 1961.

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• A man of fifty is responsible for his face.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Men, Fifty, Faces

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• No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character

  Alexander Hamilton (1797). “Observations on certain documents in "The history of the United States for the year 1796,"”, p.12

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• Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dark, Men

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Play, Cards, Impossible

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• I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.

  Stan Lee

  Nice, Philosophical, Race

  "A Chat With Stan Lee, `Godfather' Of Marvel Comics". Interview with Chip & Jonathan Carter, articles.chicagotribune.com. January 19, 1996.

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• Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

  Myla Goldberg

  Book, Brave, Portraits

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