Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, bla...
LEWIS THOMAS A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argu...
LEWIS THOMAS We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
LEWIS THOMAS The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with beha...
LEWIS THOMAS The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that ...
LEWIS THOMAS Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to attach.
THOMAS LEWIS The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the ...
LEWIS THOMAS It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so...
LEWIS THOMAS Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of...
LEWIS THOMAS Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a...
LEWIS THOMAS When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of h...
LEWIS THOMAS The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that mo...
LEWIS THOMAS We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives,...
LEWIS THOMAS The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
LEWIS THOMAS The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha...
LEWIS THOMAS Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view tha...
LEWIS THOMAS Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...
LEWIS THOMAS We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from...
LEWIS THOMAS We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Wit...
LEWIS THOMAS Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast ...
LEWIS THOMAS We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We...
LEWIS THOMAS As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread...
LEWIS THOMAS Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonder...
LEWIS THOMAS We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniq...
LEWIS THOMAS Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in ...
LEWIS THOMAS The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the h...
LEWIS THOMAS Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music o...
LEWIS THOMAS Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixe...
LEWIS THOMAS There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at ...
LEWIS THOMAS We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it f...
LEWIS THOMAS Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as lives...
LEWIS THOMAS The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symp...
LEWIS THOMAS We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we m...
LEWIS THOMAS We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We h...
LEWIS THOMAS I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a comm...
LEWIS THOMAS If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it ...
LEWIS THOMAS We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion ...
LEWIS THOMAS We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from natur...
LEWIS THOMAS It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a tee...
LEWIS THOMAS The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of al...
LEWIS THOMAS We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our li...
LEWIS THOMAS Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this,...
LEWIS THOMAS The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We ...
LEWIS THOMAS I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college,...
LEWIS THOMAS Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in t...
LEWIS THOMAS The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imag...
LEWIS THOMAS We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not jus...
LEWIS THOMAS We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our...
LEWIS THOMAS I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of relig...
LEWIS THOMAS Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unex...
LEWIS THOMAS Mutuality has tumbled into undeserved obscurity by the primacy our society places on the art of the ...
THOMAS LEWIS All of us, when we engage in relatedness, fall under the gravitational influence of another’s emot...
THOMAS LEWIS Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever ...
LEWIS THOMAS The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high prob...
LEWIS THOMAS The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that mo...
LEWIS THOMAS The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with beha...
LEWIS THOMAS The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoun...
LEWIS THOMAS The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that mo...
LEWIS THOMAS It just shows you that wind can take the ice like it was nothing.
LEWIS THOMAS Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as lives...
LEWIS THOMAS Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were n...
LEWIS THOMAS The waves were big and the wind was blowing hard.
LEWIS THOMAS It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, ...
LEWIS THOMAS The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would...
LEWIS THOMAS Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from ever...
LEWIS THOMAS Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neu...
THOMAS LEWIS Because loving is reciprocal physiologic influence, it entails a deeper and more literal connection ...
THOMAS LEWIS People differ in their proficiency at tracing the outlines of another self, and thus their ability t...
THOMAS LEWIS Knowing someone is the first goal of therapy. Modulating emotionality - whether by relatedness or ps...
THOMAS LEWIS The vocation of psychotherapy confers a few unexpected fringe benefits on its practitioners, and the...
THOMAS LEWIS When people have trouble with their emotions – a bout of anxiety or depression, say, or seasonal g...
THOMAS LEWIS The brevity of mini (psycho)therapies is another efficient forestaller of healing. The neocortex rap...
THOMAS LEWIS In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of...
THOMAS LEWIS What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from ...
THOMAS LEWIS The benefits of deep attachment are powerful - regulated people feel whole, centered, alive. (208)
THOMAS LEWIS Emotions are humanity's motivator and its omnipresent guide. (36)
THOMAS LEWIS Our society’s love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us t...
THOMAS LEWIS Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. In its ...
THOMAS LEWIS The person of the therapist is the converting catalyst, not his order or credo, not his spatial loca...
THOMAS LEWIS A therapist who fears dependence will tell his patient, sometimes openly, that the urge to rely is p...
THOMAS LEWIS The limbic connectedness of a working psychotherapy requires uncommon courage. A patient asks to sur...
THOMAS LEWIS Describing good relatedness to someone, no matter how precisely or how often, does not inscribe it i...
THOMAS LEWIS Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.
THOMAS LEWIS When anxiety becomes problematic, most people try vainly to think their way out of trouble. But worr...
THOMAS LEWIS While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central rol...
THOMAS LEWIS A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He...
THOMAS LEWIS People who need regulation often leave therapy sessions feeling calmer, stronger, safer, more able t...
THOMAS LEWIS The skill of becoming and remaining attuned to another's emotional rhythms requires a solid investme...
THOMAS LEWIS Love is simultaneous mutual regulation, wherein each person meets the needs of the other, because ne...
THOMAS LEWIS Long-standing togetherness writes permanent changes into a brain's open book. In a relationship, one...
THOMAS LEWIS Even after a peak parenting experience, children never transition to a fully self-tuning physiology....
THOMAS LEWIS The first part of emotional healing is being limbically known - having someone with a keen ear catch...
THOMAS LEWIS Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love. (144)
THOMAS LEWIS The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...
LEWIS THOMAS All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboratio...
LEWIS THOMAS I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences ...
LEWIS THOMAS We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We ...
LEWIS THOMAS They didn't even go to the hospital.
LEWIS THOMAS We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we m...
LEWIS THOMAS Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
LEWIS THOMAS Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlook...
LEWIS THOMAS Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all t...
LEWIS THOMAS If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
LEWIS THOMAS The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
LEWIS THOMAS My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house ...
LEWIS THOMAS Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species,...
LEWIS THOMAS We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.
LEWIS THOMAS Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our exi...
LEWIS THOMAS We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives...
LEWIS THOMAS Advances in communication technology foster a false fantasy of togetherness by transmitting the impr...
THOMAS LEWIS When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.
LEONA LEWIS I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surround...
LEONA LEWIS One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. Thi...
LEWIS HOWES Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki...
LEWIS BLACK I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.
LEONA LEWIS The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.
LEWIS HOWES Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
JULIETTE LEWIS I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by ...
RAY LEWIS Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.
LEONA LEWIS You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.
RAY LEWIS Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWIS When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier t...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
SINCLAIR LEWIS Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
SINCLAIR LEWIS What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
SINCLAIR LEWIS People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
SINCLAIR LEWIS Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasa...
MERIWETHER LEWIS We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peopl...
JOHN LEWIS ‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost yo...
LEWIS CARROLL I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times sinc...
LEWIS CARROLL She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
LEWIS CARROLL I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a ...
LENNOX LEWIS Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
AL LEWIS Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'...
AL LEWIS But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's th...
AL LEWIS As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fai...
AL LEWIS America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWIS We work it out like that so we both have more involvement in it. He knows the aspect of the defense ...
AL LEWIS They're very tight. They're excited to play together. It's like a little family we have here.
AL LEWIS She understood what the struggle was about. You become aware. It hits you in the stomach and then a ...
AL LEWIS One of the best things you can do in a situation like this is to show them a lot of kindness. They a...
AL LEWIS It's too nebulous. You can't understand anything. They keep saying, 'It's coming; it's coming.' It i...
AL LEWIS They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.
LEWIS TAPPAN It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
LEWIS CARROLL What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro...
LEWIS BLACK Goal setting should be part of your daily and weekly routines and should not be based on a calendar ...
LEWIS HOWES If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
LEWIS HINE I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking o...
CARL LEWIS If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.
LENNOX LEWIS As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the...
LEWIS HOWES Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating criti...
LEWIS HOWES If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS As a business owner who is looking to market his or her company, you should be on the lookout for op...
LEWIS HOWES As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren&...
LEWIS HOWES We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the C...
MERIWETHER LEWIS I'm out there most every night, ... My work schedule, of course, is pretty rigid, but every moment I...
ALAN LEWIS We need to do a better job of treating our residents.
ALAN LEWIS This building size should capture a segment of the market that we feel is active and has not been pr...
ALAN LEWIS Did your grandparents ever share any stories about growing up in the country?
ALAN LEWIS If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
ALAN LEWIS A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it o...
DAMIAN LEWIS I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been ...
DAMIAN LEWIS You just have to take control of your own performance.
DAMIAN LEWIS Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
DAMIAN LEWIS All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
DAMIAN LEWIS I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to su...
DAMIAN LEWIS There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into y...
DAMIAN LEWIS Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words...
DAMIAN LEWIS If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the direc...
DAMIAN LEWIS I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articul...
DAMIAN LEWIS I love playing sport.
DAMIAN LEWIS You have to go where the good writing is.
DAMIAN LEWIS I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
DAMIAN LEWIS The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and...
DAMIAN LEWIS I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
DAMIAN LEWIS You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a tradin...
DAMIAN LEWIS I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes y...
DAMIAN LEWIS In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still you...
DAMIAN LEWIS I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
DAMIAN LEWIS For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
DAMIAN LEWIS People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
DAMIAN LEWIS In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain ...
DAMIAN LEWIS No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,...
EDMONIA LEWIS Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
EDMONIA LEWIS I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a ...
EDMONIA LEWIS I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y...
EDMONIA LEWIS My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian ...
EDMONIA LEWIS There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the bough...
EDMONIA LEWIS Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa...
EDMONIA LEWIS Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come lat...
FLORA LEWIS I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of exp...
FLORA LEWIS We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
FLORA LEWIS