Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousinswas an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
eye journey men
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
forgiveness
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
war people use
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
real america world
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
baseball thinking games
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"
respect reverence-for-life inspired
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.
peace afterthought
We will not have peace by afterthought.
life motivational peace
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
reading book quality
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
peace war world
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
intellectual literature cynicism
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
inspirational change men
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
positive optimistic optimism
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
inspirational funny graduation
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.