Gail Borden Quotes

“I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]”

“I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]”

“If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention”

“Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you... Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.”

“My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.”

“Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.”

“Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.”

“Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.”

“Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well developed. This problem is at the core of human ecology. As with any interdisciplinary pursuit, it is the bridging across disparate ways of knowing that is the constant challenge.”

“One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.”

“The border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views. Within psychology it was a significant preoccupation of William James, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, and many others. But these margins may be seen in other ways as well. There is substantial evidence from psychological studies of personal space that we carry body boundaries of extended space around ourselves. These spatial extensions are not only personal. They may be felt by groups as well—in terms of shared “social” space, communal territories, or even national identities.”