Zitat des Tages über Hilflosigkeit / Helplessness:
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.