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"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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Personal Development
"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."
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Personal Development
"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."
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Personal Development
"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
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Personal Development
"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."
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"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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Personal Development
"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."
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Personal Development
"Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them."
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Personal Development
"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."
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"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
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"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
Technology
"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"
People
"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
Evil
"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."
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"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."
Psychology
"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."
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"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
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"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
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