#person

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#considered #depends #dire #disease #himself

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#finds #found #himself #often #people

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties. ↗

— Roger Stone

#civil liberties #conservative #freedom #how #justify

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#because #difficult #easy #father #found

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#dress #go #i #out #personal

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#compassion #dignity #forth #i #i think

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#desire #exactly #first #first step #goal

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#fortunate #i #led #life #myself