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Quotes by Psychologist
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
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"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."
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"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
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"The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic."
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"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
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"You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness."
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"A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view."
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"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."
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"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
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"This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love."
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"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions."
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"They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity."
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"New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement."
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"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."
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"Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power."
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"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
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"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated."
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"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
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"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
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"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."
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"We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of."
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"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school."
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"I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word."
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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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"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built."
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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right."
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"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."
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"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
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"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish."
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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."
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"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism."
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"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"
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"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."
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"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."
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"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
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"Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."
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"Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth."
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"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
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"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods."
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"We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions."
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."
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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
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"I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring."
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"It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble."
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