60 ordspråk av Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins föddes den June 24th 1912 och dog den 30 November 1990 - long associated with the Saturday Review.
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 Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life |
| Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. |
| People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. |
| People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time |
| Pessimism is a waste of time |
| Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience. |
| Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. |
| Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep |
| The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. |
| The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. |
| The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. |
| The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. |
| The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. |
| The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. |
| The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. |
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