Theodore Millon quotes

“Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.”
-- Theodore Millon

Source : Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

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“One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.”
-- Theodore Millon

Source : Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Sarah E. Meagher, Seth D. Grossman, Rowena Ramnath (2012). “Personality Disorders in Modern Life”, p.481, John Wiley & Sons

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“Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.”
-- Theodore Millon

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“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press

“Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.”

“Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend.”

“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.13, Open Road Media

“Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.”

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

“Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.”

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“I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.”

“No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.”