Famous Quotes / Norman Cousins
41 Quotations by Norman Cousins
- 1. A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds toge ...
- 2. A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing ...
- 3. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
- 4. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i ...
- 5. All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
- 6. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.
- 7. Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
- 8. Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w ...
- 9. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
- 10. Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
- 11. History is a vast early warning system.
- 12. It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed.... Time given to thought is the ...
- 13. It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use ...
- 14. Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its eff ...
- 15. Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiratio ...
- 16. Laughter is inner jogging.
- 17. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- 18. Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
- 19. Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis ca ...
- 20. Much of the ache and the brooding unhappiness in modern man is the result of his difficulty in using ...