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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990.

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Famous Norman Cousins Quotes

“The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.”

Ifs Men Moving Pay Failing Achieve Essence Embrace Definitions Imperfection Moving Ahead

Author:Norman Cousins

“If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.”

Ifs Firsts Easy Peace Conflict Prosperity Ordeals

Book:In place of folly

Source: In place of folly

“Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.”

Ifs Mean Facts Desire Ability Produce Access Unlimited Matched

Author:Norman Cousins

“At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"”

Ifs Thinking Said Games Five Four Baseball Foolish Los Angeles Ninety Baseball Games Dodgers

Author:Norman Cousins

“I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.”

Ifs Men Humans Belief Liberty Failing Color Diversity Opposites Harmony Unity Depth Hungry Fulfillment Texture Incomplete Stranded

Book:The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

Source: The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”

Ifs Life Made Achievement Approach Immortality Because Of You

Book:The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

Source: The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

“If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.”

Ifs Believe Fighting Nations United Submit United Nations Advocating Unesco

Author:Norman Cousins

“Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”

Ifs Trying Two Three Personality Mathematics Math Motto Numbers And Math Funny Mathematics Funny Clever Clever And Witty

Author:Norman Cousins

“If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation”

Ifs May Nations Difficult News Claims Bad News

Author:Norman Cousins

“We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.”

Ifs World Philosophy America Mistake Products Training Defective

Author:Norman Cousins

About the Author

Born: June 24, 1915
Died: November 30, 1990
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 151

Books & Sources

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and RegenerationRelated source material

Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human SpiritRelated source material

The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinityRelated source material

Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the PatientRelated source material

Present Tense; an American Editor's OdysseyRelated source material

The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the SoulRelated source material

Who Speaks for Man?Related source material

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In place of follyRelated source material

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