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Quotes by Psychologist
"Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years."
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"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art."
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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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"Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision."
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"The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods."
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"The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex."
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"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
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"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."
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"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
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"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
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"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."
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"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy."
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"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."
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"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"
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"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2."
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"I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that's why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those towns with one single coffee shop and where everyone knows each other's name. I walked for a while until I found the water, the most peaceful place I know. There I sat and stayed the whole day, with nothing and everything on my mind, cleaning my head. Silence, I learned, is some times the most beautiful sound."
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"Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no."
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"But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially."
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"The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped."
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"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period."
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"What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate."
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"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
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"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."
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"It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence."
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"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."
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"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."
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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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"Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too."
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"Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it."
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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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"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions."
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"Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality."
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"My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own."
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"They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not."
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"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
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"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
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"A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage."
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"I learn my world through writing."
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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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"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."
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"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."
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"It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful,the way I actually did."
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"Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of being, and of the idea that not-having is the premise for being. The world has followed Satan's principles, since the time of the gospels."
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"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge."
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