“The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.” MayLongBlackCasesTheoryLong TimeCatHarderStatementsUselessSimplestIrritating Author:Norman Macbeth
“Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.” FeelsLongLostLosesToo MuchOur LivesTheoryFindingsLong TimeGratefulStatus QuoWalletsTheory Of Life Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
“I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.” ThinkingLongImportantWould BeArtistTheoryLong TimeAuthenticityPainterI've Learned Author:Margot Fonteyn
“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.” WellsKindLongMadeMotherOur LivesTheoryTypeJudgmentPerceptionSummerLong TimeInstrumentsPsychologicalMade ItOur FamilyPreferenceIntroversionJung Author:Isabel Briggs Myers
“I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.” PeopleGivingLongRememberCertainRaceClassDoubtCollegeTheoryBenefitsLong TimeIntelligentAssumingProfessorsLong Time AgoReactingBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.” IfsLongSleepTheoryBabyLong TimeBreastsAttachmentAttachment Parenting Author:Sarah Ruhl
“The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case...It's just simply gibberish. The fact is, there's no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. It's been tested and tested over the centuries.” ShouldYearsLongFactsBeliefCasesCenturyTheoryProveLong TimeDataTested Author:Richard E. Berendzen
“I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.” WorldWayHumansLongHuman NatureFieldsTheoryLong TimeSkinsFellowsOur WorldReciprocity Author:Gardner Murphy