“I try to project a constant sensibility about life. To me, the clothing is not—it’s not just clothes. It’s how you live and what your dreams are... I’m always designing clothes for those dreams.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“Since I think just in pictures it's sort of hard to think about abstract concepts so I have to have visual images like for example when I was a child I didn't really understand some of the stuff in the Lord's Prayer and y'know when it talks about "the power and the glory"...and I thought "electrical…”— Temple Grandin, imdb.com
“Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“I’m much softer than people think. I don’t present to the world an emotional face. I’m pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.”— Christopher Lee, telegraph.co.uk
“I’ve always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much—because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you’re sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room.”— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfa…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com