Quotes About Reevaluation

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

There are so many hard-wired ideas we've grown up with that we're now realizing are unacceptable.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

A perspectiva cósmica abre nossos olhos para o universo, não como um berço benevolente concebido para gerar a vida, mas como um lugar frio, solitário e perigoso, nos obrigando a reavaliar o valor de todos os humanos um para o outro.

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: "Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Vive como si ya estuvieras viviendo por segunda vez y como si la primera vez ya hubieras obrado tan desacertadamente como ahora estás a punto de obrar

Recalculate. Then show me sunrise again.

Another occupation might have been better.

I consider myself an Upper East Sider, but I may have to reconsider. While I was away, everyone seemed to flee!

I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.

The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

But Southern California, in its sprawling, edgeless blandness, was losing its baseline status in my mind. It was no longer the place by which all other places had to be measured.

We must redefine the American dream so that it does not rest on the assumption that we can throw old places away and create new ones in the middle of nowhere.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

One man's trash ends up another man's wife.

You know, until this trip, I thought I liked the cold. One can dress extravagantly when there's no risk of sweating- brocades, gold trims, hats. But I am reevaluating.' ... I roll my eyes. 'You have an understated elegance, so no need to worry about weather.

Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one

When disability or madness is present, it is conceived of as a deficit, something in need of correction, medically/psychiatrically or by the correction industry, but not as a nuanced identity from which to understand how to live differently, including reevaluating responses to harm and difference.

All the clichés turned out to be true: what once had seemed important no longer mattered at all.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

Losing your job gives you access to time