George Harrar quotes

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.
-- George Harrar

#Survival #Forget #Very Good

I think we all do craft a certain self-image. I guess the degree that our internal self-image matches the image we project, we perhaps feel really uncomfortable in the world when there is a difference. That can cause a lot of stress or bad feelings about ourselves.
-- George Harrar

#Stress #Thinking #Feelings

Sex and graduation night is a rather common thing in our culture, as a celebration of turning 18 and getting out of school, or just of liberation.
-- George Harrar

#School #Night #Culture

We may spark something or set something in motion in another person's life by something we've done. Perhaps in a car accident we injure someone. Perhaps as a manager, we fire someone. There are a lot of things that could precipitate something negative in another person's life. But does that make us responsible for everything that follows from it? Is there a statute of limitations?
-- George Harrar

#Car #Negative #Done

I just don't think it's healthy to only have one pursuit, even if it's a seemingly positive thing. You can do a positive thing to the nth degree, and it turns on you at some point. You become stuck.
-- George Harrar

#Thinking #Healthy #Stuck

In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just doesn't allow for circumstance or other people's points of view. It's very comforting because you don't have to self-reflect, you just are. There's a strain of that in American culture.
-- George Harrar

#Comforting #Culture #Morality

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.

My history's not very good, but did David win?

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.