“Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.” PeopleNeedsWellsPersonsTwoAbleRomancePassionMarriageWeaknessAreasVicesVulnerabilityVice Versa Author:Jane Fonda
“What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.” MindMightMovingLawPassionJusticeBehindsAttitudeQualityFrontsHumilityHabitJudgmentCapableTrainingAreasCapacityCourtIndividualityIngredientsTemperamentDetachmentDominating Book:Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution
“I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.” IfsThinkingMayPassionBrainAreasMusicalCriminalsDamageTraitsEmergenceSuppressingSeizuresEruption Author:Oliver Sacks
“In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.” ThinkingGivingArtFormPassionActorsActingTypeAreasCrossesEntertainmentIntimate Author:Nick Cannon
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.” PeopleWayNeedsTwoDifferentHelpingPassionFunChildhoodTypePercentAreasThirdsAddictionDefinitionsIllnessTraumaPunishmentMental IllnessSevereBetter WaysCoping Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.” MenMotherPassionFatherSubjectsCommitmentAreasFollowingThoughtfulBuyingAwkwardElectricClueHis LoveBlanketExhibitsFathers DayReferringTokensVery ThoughtfulElectric Blankets Author:Dave Barry