Shrinks Quotes:

I go to the dentist, not a shrink.

- Takashi Miike

topic: Dentist, Shrinks

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Adversity, Prosperity, Shrinks

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

- Louie Giglio

topic: Shrinks, Stature, Lifting

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

- Tacitus

topic: Fallen, Shrinks

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

- George Carlin

topic: Rain, Sheep, Shrinks

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

- Marcus Aurelius

source: "Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius".

topic: Change, Shrinks

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.70, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Ideas, Ends, Shrinks

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

- David Platt

topic: Hopelessness, Radical, Shrinks

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

- Tori Amos

topic: Want, Call Me, Shrinks

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

- Robert Englund

source: Source: www.wwe.com

topic: Psycho, Obsessed, Shrinks

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

topic: Greatness, Dignity, Shrinks

That which shrinks must first expand.

- Laozi

source: Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

topic: Firsts, Shrinks

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

- Seth Godin

source: Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

topic: Greatness, Way, Shrinks

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Innovation, Souls In Love

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Preparation, Redress, Conservatism, Shrinks, Antiquity

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

- Woody Allen

source: "Fictional character: Robin Simon". "Celebrity", www.imdb.com. 1998.

topic: Love, Book, Self, Shrinks, Self Help Books

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Heart, Answers, Doe, Shrinks, Feeling Alone

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Life, Giving Up, Giving, Shrinks

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

- Hugh Laurie

topic: Stupid, People, Giving, Shrinks, Seeking Help

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

- Ariel Pink

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Song, Hate, Squash, Shrinks

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Excellence, Wish, Desire, Shrinks, Moral Excellence

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Liars, Lying, Men, Shrinks

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Loss, Variation, Management, Shrinks

If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.

- Ray Dalio

topic: Life, Growth, Important, Shrinks

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

- Frances Wright

topic: Heart, Ignorance, Thinking, Shrinks, Sacrilege

Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

- Marge M. Kennedy

topic: Children, Reading, Kids, Shrinks, Child Psychology

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

- Josiah Bartlett

topic: Lying, Heart, Mean, Shrinks, Depraved

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

- Shirley Temple

topic: Memories, Past, Nostalgia, Shrinks

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.

- Lord Chesterfield

source: Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.346, Oxford University Press

topic: Government, Giving, Tone, Shrinks, Free Government

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

- William James

topic: Freedom, Real, Names, Shrinks, True Freedom

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

- Arthur Laffer

source: "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

topic: Government, Pie, Growth, Shrinks

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

- Dirk Wittenborn

topic: Reading, Book, Medicine, Shrinks, Mistreatment

We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.

- Frank Pittman

topic: Mother, Running, Father, Shrinks

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

- Casey Neistat

topic: Guiding Principles, Risk, Assuming, Shrinks

Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Cells, Brain, May, Shrinks, Brain Cells

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

topic: Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge, Shrinks, Encouragers

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

- Ovid

topic: Long, Rust, Talent, Shrinks, Lethargic

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Mother, Clinging, Wanted, Shrinks

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1329, Delphi Classics

topic: Love, Remembrance, Soul, Shrinks, Derogatory

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

topic: Soul, Mind, Doe, Shrinks

The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Children, Heart, Blow, Shrinks

Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.

- Ned Vizzini

topic: Simple, Giving, Office, Shrinks

And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

- David Levithan

topic: Balls, Feels, Universe, Shrinks

It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

- Laini Taylor

topic: Dream, Sleep, Space, Shrinks

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.47, South End Press

topic: Government, People, Mind, Independent Thinking, Shrinks

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

- Dorothy Rowe

source: Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.197, Psychology Press

topic: Depression, Believe, Mean, Shrinks, Depressed Person

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

- Thomas Hardy

topic: Knowing, Sometimes, Shrinks

I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Memories, Ocean, Mean, Shrinks, Exorcism

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Pride, Sarcasm, Expression, Shrinks

What, are you like Buffy or something? A vampire slayer?” I wish. “No, but my sister is. And my boyfriend’s a vampire so I know a lot about their kind.” Jayden shrinks back from me, wide-eyed. “No, no. He’s one of the good ones. Not all vampires are evil,” I assure him. “So…you’re dating…Edward Cullen.” “Sure, if you have to relate it all to a Stephenie Meyer book,” I grudgingly agree. “But don’t say that to Magnus’s face. He’s a card-carrying member of Team Jacob. Even has the T-shirt.

- Mari Mancusi

topic: Team, Book, Evil, Shrinks, Slayer

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Ideas, Mediocrity, Publicity, Shrinks

A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

topic: Suicide, Dream, Regret, Shrinks, Rough Day

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

- William Arthur Ward

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Voice, Hot, Dull, Shrinks, Sharp Words

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

- Reed Morano

topic: Photography, Directors, Sometimes, Shrinks

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

- Tim Cook

source: "Tim Cook channels Martin Luther King Jr. in speech to George Washington University graduates". www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2015.

topic: Passion, Thinking, Risk, Shrinks

In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But at the dusk--he's abroad and well! Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him-- All mock him outright, by day: But at night, when the woods grow still and dim, The boldest will shrink away! O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl, Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!

- Bryan Procter

topic: Fall, Sunshine, Night, Shrinks, Roost

I overcame my fears and troubles simply by praying and learning to calm down when scary things were happening - I formed certain mantras which helped me become pro-active vs. reactive, such as : What's the problem? What's the solution? Time Energy Money What do I get? What do I give? Shrink It. Fix it. Grow it.

- Kelly Cutrone

topic: Giving, Scary, Energy, Shrinks, Scary Things

A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

- Steve Weinstein

topic: Player, Cds, Age, Shrinks, Digital Age

On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the world that commands the respect or has the capabilities that we do, and we must not shrink from our responsibilities.

- Dan Quayle

source: Source: www.leadersmag.com

topic: Country, Responsibility, Play, Shrinks, Leadership Roles

Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1134, Delphi Classics

topic: Sad, Sweet, Hurt, Shrinks

Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

- John Waters

source: Source: www.timeout.com

topic: Running, Fun, Long, Shrinks

Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

topic: Beautiful, Fall, Health, Shrinks, Warts

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

topic: Atheism, Citizens, Crime, Shrinks, Athenians