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Quotes by Psychologist
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
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"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
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"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
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"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."
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"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach."
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"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
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"Dear me, one day I'll make you proud."
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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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"Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you."
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"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
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"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure."
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"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."
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"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."
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"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"
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"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
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"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
Dogs,
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"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
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"If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life."
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"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love."
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"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
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"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own."
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"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion."
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"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
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"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
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"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people."
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"I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for."
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"In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient."
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"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."
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"The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth."
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"When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to."
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"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
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"Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine."
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"It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love."
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"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
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