Quotes by John Kerr

“I didnt evacuate because I had a father who was a new amputee,”

“We are extremely fortunate in the fact that we can pick up our lives, ... There are so many who cant.”

“I was at Lake Poway, and I was 7 years old, ... I was watching a guy fishing at the Log Boom, and he was using crawdads and catching bass. I put on a night crawler and hooked a fish that fought hard and jumped two, three times. It was a bass, and that did it for me. Ive been a bass fisherman ever since.”

“Rick Clunn was my idol growing up, so its going to be a real thrill to fish against him,”

“One of the things my dad said to me when I got back was that no matter what, theyll never be able to take that title away from me,”

“I just hope and pray that this thing works out. Youve got to have a consistent tax system so it wouldnt be a burden on people trying to figure things out of state.”

“Im picking it up slowly but surely. At first, I didnt know what was going on. I feel Im starting to perform a little bit better.”

“Their first goal changed our momentum and kept them within a chance of tying the game for sure. They did have some opportunities to equalize, but we fell asleep in that moment and paid the price.”

“Its something we are working on, to be honest. That is, to keep a focus throughout the 90 minutes and understanding that [a mental lapse] can happen to us.”

“We are becoming resilient. We are understanding that there are going to be injuries and we just have to deal with them each game, each half. We are doing our best and the guys coming in off the bench are doing a great job so I am happy with the overall performance.”

Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking obscurely; perhaps he is claiming too much; perhaps she is speaking rather too personally. And one can, perhaps, charge Spielrein on all three counts. But, on balance, her inability to win recognition for her insight into repression was not her fault; it was Freud’s and Jung’s. Preoccupied with their own theories, and with each other, the two men simply did not pause even to take in the ideas of this junior colleague let alone to lend a helping hand in finding a more felicitous expression for her thought. More ominously still, both men privately justified their disregard by implicitly casting her once more into the role of patient, as though that role somehow precluded a person from having a voice or a vision of his or her own. It was and remains a damning comment on how psychoanalysis was evolving that so unfair a rhetorical maneuver, one so at odds with the essential genius of the new therapeutic method, came so easily to hand. In the great race between Freud and Jung to systematize psychoanalytic theory, to codify it once and for all, a simpler truth was lost sight of: Sometimes a person is not heard because she is not listened to.