Quotes about "Mental Health & Wellbeing"

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. ”

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled. ”

Sometimes when you remember yourself in a big, big fight, and you remember being very emotional, you use words, and you react in a way that you take back some hours later. ”

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. ”

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ”

I know the kind of street I'm going down. I know my own strengths and weaknesses. ”

The rare opportunity of writing music for a movie about the making of 'Mary Poppins' was impossible to ignore. The fact that it could provide emotional content in relief of the struggles that the Sherman brothers and Walt Disney endured was reason enough to take on the challenge. ”

Sometimes a little kid will come up to me and ask me to show him some tricks. I always have to say: 'I can't do any tricks.' They want to see some sort of magic: keepie-uppies, around-the-worlds, that sort of thing. It's not really my strength. ”

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience. ”

I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing. ”