If no one bites, maybe you could visit a bookstore and copy down the Emerson quotes.
It seems weird that there would be fake Emerson quotes given that Emerson was so prolific. He could practically be quoted by accident.
I haven't heard anything about fake Emerson quotes, but I have heard some annoyance that Emerson (among others) were quoted as knowing The Secret, even though they never said anything about "the law of attraction."
Sorry ... I had not heard of a companion book for the The Secret film.
Personally, I would check through interlibrary loan. I would rather not give my money to self-help gurus of dubious value.
But I would love to see Penn and Teller's Bullshit show on Showtime taking a critical look at The Secret.
I suppose that the "power of positive thinking" thing was original back in the 1950s when Norman Vincent Peale popularized it.
You may appreciate this quote from Wikipedia which quotes a critic of The Secret:
Karin Klein, editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, called The Secret "just a new spin on the very old (and decidedly not secret) The Power of Positive Thinking [book by Norman Vincent Peale (1952)] wedded to 'ask and you shall receive'." The editorial, in one of its strongest criticisms, asserted Rhonda Byrne "took the well-worn ideas of some self-help gurus, customized them for the profoundly lazy, [and] gave them a veneer of mysticism..."
I watched "The Secret", and had decidedly mixed feelings... first, I was tempted with the thought that perhaps I, Too, could steal a couple of woohoo new age concepts and make a fortune from it, then was immediately ashamed for even momrntarily contemplating preying on desparate people like that.
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According to Netflix, you can rent it.
The book?
If no one bites, maybe you could visit a bookstore and copy down the Emerson quotes.
It seems weird that there would be fake Emerson quotes given that Emerson was so prolific. He could practically be quoted by accident.
I haven't heard anything about fake Emerson quotes, but I have heard some annoyance that Emerson (among others) were quoted as knowing The Secret, even though they never said anything about "the law of attraction."
Sorry ... I had not heard of a companion book for the The Secret film.
Personally, I would check through interlibrary loan. I would rather not give my money to self-help gurus of dubious value.
But I would love to see Penn and Teller's Bullshit show on Showtime taking a critical look at The Secret.
I suppose that the "power of positive thinking" thing was original back in the 1950s when Norman Vincent Peale popularized it.
You may appreciate this quote from Wikipedia which quotes a critic of The Secret:
Karin Klein, editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, called The Secret "just a new spin on the very old (and decidedly not secret) The Power of Positive Thinking [book by Norman Vincent Peale (1952)] wedded to 'ask and you shall receive'." The editorial, in one of its strongest criticisms, asserted Rhonda Byrne "took the well-worn ideas of some self-help gurus, customized them for the profoundly lazy, [and] gave them a veneer of mysticism..."
I watched "The Secret", and had decidedly mixed feelings... first, I was tempted with the thought that perhaps I, Too, could steal a couple of woohoo new age concepts and make a fortune from it, then was immediately ashamed for even momrntarily contemplating preying on desparate people like that.
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