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Quotes by Psychologist
"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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"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us."
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"Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect."
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"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
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"No man will work for your interests unless they are his."
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"Never permit failure to become a habit."
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"I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it? I quit, I'm done? Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment of what's out there."
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"A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me-but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is."
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"Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know."
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"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on."
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"You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness."
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"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
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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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"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task."
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"Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power."
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"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."
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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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"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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"No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training."
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"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."
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"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."
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"If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts."
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"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."
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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
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"We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them."
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"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
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"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
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"Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance."
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"From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat."
Fear,
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"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
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"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
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"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."
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"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
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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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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
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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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"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."
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"In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli."
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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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"In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women."
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"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
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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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"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites."
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"We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently."
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"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."
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