"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."

Life, Class, Prison, Students

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"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"

History, Morality, People, Evil

"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."

Research, Shyness

"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, Time, People, Revolution

"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, Act, Dumb, Evil

"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, Shyness

"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."

Family, Childhood, College, First

"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."

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