Quotes About Integration

Life and sports cannot be separated; they are one.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game.

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

Success in one role can't justify failure in another.

To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

A multitude of particular facts cannot be seen separately, without at last discovering the common tie which connects them.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

What is made of water and fire -- for isn't that what a man whose nature opposes his responsibilities can be said to be? Does one quench the other, or do they combine to ignite the depths of the soul?

The banished emotions reassert themselves and invade the body.

True adulthood would mean no longer denying the truth. It would mean feeling the repressed suffering, consciously acknowledging the story remembered by the body at an emotional level, and integrating that story instead of repressing it.

To recognize and integrate something monstrous from our collective past as a society requires considerable time, just as it does on the individual level, in therapy. To rush the process may mean that the mechanisms of denial are further strengthened. We still need our illusions, our crutches, as we confront a new and painful aspect of the truth on our journey toward a complete perception of the child's situation.

However, it may also be true that there is still a small, unintegrated child living within, whose panic and fear have never been admitted, never consciously experienced, and thus direct themselves at others. These fears can suddenly assail us without apparent reason and cause us to panic. Unconscious fear of one's father or mother can last for decades if it has not been consciously experienced in the company of an enlightened witness.