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Psychology Quotes
"You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you.""I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?"
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"She asked him, to name the monster that he is most afraid of always and looked into his eyes in silence. 'I see him every time whenever I stare into your eyes.' he replied."
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"If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard."
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"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself."
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"The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, "Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or foe? Did you release him from the web and your presence or will you give another the venom in which to finish him?" The black widow was quiet and then said, "All of the above."
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"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
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"In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend."
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"Your brain with all its parts, exists to keep you safe, but your mind, with all your memories and intuition, exists to help you soar."
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"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?"
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"Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived."
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"Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?"
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"I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites."
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"People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life."
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"Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image."
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"None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin, or stalk me in the night, or go along beside me for a while in the day. They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier: so close that my fear of them and their fear of me became one same fear. And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to feel or rub or caress one another's scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another's blood or flesh, keep one another warm, that attraction was now all one with the fear, and the hunter could not be told from the hunted, nor the eater from the food."
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"Variability has potential to create confusion."
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"But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points."
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"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves."
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"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
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"The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane."
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"All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction."
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"A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key."
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"If you hide your problems and never let yourself get help from yourself and others, those problems will always be lurking inside of you beneath the surface."
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"Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back."
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"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
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"Comparison is the thief of joy."
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"We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
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"Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug."
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"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."
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"Anger is the immune system of the soul."
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"If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected."
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"Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."
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"But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture."
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"He was mad and plenty brave."
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"People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced."
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"This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?"
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"It's the hard things that break; soft things don't break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it's the soft things that can't break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!"
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"When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless."
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"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
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"You can grow up being a troublemaker and then before you know it the next thing you're doing is listening to Frank Zappa whilst chilling out-now that's the intelligent way out. What would a psychiatrist say about that?"
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"Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them."
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"He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to."
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"People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger."
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"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
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"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis."
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"Where there is anger there is always pain underneath."
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"Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are."
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"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."
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