Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Hugh Prather

Quote by Hugh Prather

“When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel; "I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you."”

Quote by Hugh Prather

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
Create image

Work

Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

This book is a candid account of the author's experiences and reflections on the challenges and triumphs encountered in the quest for personal development and identity. more

Author

Hugh Prather
Hugh Prather

English biography, 120-180 words more

You May Also Like

“Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.”

PeopleKnowsGivingTryingPersonsChangeJusticeWalksSituationGiving UpHopelessSpouseWorth LivingTry AgainHaving HopeLife Worth LivingBad Situations
Book:Notes on Love and Courage
Create image

“We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy" as we ought to be. But this is not a Church convention. This is a general conference where we meet for general counsel and advice. It is a place to which we come for the results of the reflective operations of our minds.”

PeopleFeelsMindSometimesTodayChurchResultsAdviceOughtMetsOperationsConventionsConferencesGeneral Conference
Author:J. Reuben Clark
Create image

“Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.”

PeopleFirstsSaidAmericaNamesWhiteLibertyStepsLandPropertyIndianFirst StepsDeprivedNorth AmericaRobbingSettlers
Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary
Create image

“I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.”

PeopleMenWorldGivingLittlesStillsWarGovernmentCareGivenSecretOpinionMilitaryGiving UpDevilDestructionMethodDecentSuperstitionsAlmightyNot Giving UpCalamityInfidel
Book:The American Crisis
Create image

“The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.”

PeopleShouldIdeasWholeTakenExampleWalkingSickMadDelusionHospitalsLockedSaneClicheLocked Up
Author:Tom Stoppard
Create image

“About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.”

PeopleIfsWayCountryRunningDestinyRepublicanPercentVoteTwentiesDemocratOne WayFortySwingsEightyAbe
Author:Tom Clancy
Create image