11 Quotes by Ernest Jones

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him

Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction.

[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.

I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.

Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.