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assumptions
«The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.»
«The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumptions, pressures, questioning, The web, web
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Mankind,
Mind
| Keywords:
assumptions, capture, chaotic, fictions, fin, fins, flux, incomprehensible, scheme, serving, unreal, urge
«The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.»
Author: George MacDonald
| Keywords:
assumptions, demon, irrational, Or logic, reservation, Reservations, sympathize, sympathizes, sympathize with, temporary state
«We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.»
«You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
abandon, assumptions, stick to