Acceptance Process Quotes

There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. “You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine.” Second phase: they say, "Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

I'm continuing the educational process of getting people to accept dance as music.

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.