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Quotes by Psychologist
"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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"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
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"Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not."
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"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."
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"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
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"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."
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"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
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"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
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"Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth."
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"I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt."
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"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try."
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"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do."
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"Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species."
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"Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way."
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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
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"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
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"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
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"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
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"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
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"Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants."
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"Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them."
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"In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help."
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"The sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine."
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"Unconditional love corresponds to one of the deepest longings, not only of the child, but of every human being; on the other hand, to be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me,maybe this, or that-there is always a fear that love could disappear. Furthermore, "deserved" love easily leaves a bitter feeling that one is not loved for oneself, that one is loved only because one pleases, that one is, in the last analysis, not loved at all but used."
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"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc."
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"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."
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"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
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"I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea."
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"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
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"Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena."
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"Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
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"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom."
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"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
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"Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!"
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"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either."
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"I can't sleep alone anymoreand I get used tocompanytoo quickly. You're always gone too soon."
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"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge."
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"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992."
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"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
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"Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottleand your hands in mine."
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"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
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"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."
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"What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it."
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"All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day."
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"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
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"There's something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave."
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"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
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"We are what we do."
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