Quotes About Becker

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.

One way to salvage the Becker conjecture is to argue that CEOs, coaches, and other managers who are hired because they have a broad range of skills, which may not include analytical reasoning, could simply hire geeks who would deserve to be members of Becker's 10% to crunch the numbers for them. But my hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink.

For Becker, this is literally true: Normality is our collective, protective madness, in which we repress the truth of the human condition, and those who have difficulty playing this game are the ones we call mentally ill.

I'm sleeping with a Harvard grad," I said. "The Emory of the North," Becker said.

The reason is precisely the advance of specialization, the impossibility of making safe general statements, which has led to a general imbecility.

the only thing more presumptuous than intruding into the private world of the dying would be to refuse his invitation.

the great increase in bitterness and frustration in the modern world is largely due to the eclipse of the sacred dimension

At what cost do we purchase the assurance that we are heroic? No doubt, one of the reasons Becker has never found a mass audience is because he shames us with the knowledge of how easily we will shed blood to purchase the assurance of our own righteousness.

There are signs—the acceptance of Becker's work being one—that some individuals are awakening from the long, dark night of tribalism and nationalism and developing what Tillich called a transmoral conscience, an ethic that is universal rather than ethnic.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

the value of threats is determined by our reaction.

I understand you are upset, but the things you are talking about are not your style. I know you are far too reasonable and have too good a future to even consider such things.

Information Anxiety, Richard Saul

Lawrence pulled his gun from its holster. "I've got fifteen rounds to help you live out this fantasy, Becker. Then you're on your own.

From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.