One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on st...ep on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both fee...t on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The ideal reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only ...all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywhee...l and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider what effects which might conceivably have practical bearings we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then our c...onception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit... thoughtfully while it goes by.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »