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Quotes by Psychologist
"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."
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"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
31
"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."
31
"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation."
31
"Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny."
31
"A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action."
31
"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
31
"We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families."
31
"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."
31
"We cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another."
31
"Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear."
31
"A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it."
31
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
31
"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship."
31
"Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects."
31
"No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other."
31
"Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."
31
"The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in."
31
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
31
"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
31
"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."
31
"I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions."
31
"The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves."
31
"There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing."
31
"A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now."
31
"If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know."
31
"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."
31
"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."
31
"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."
31
"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
31
"Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about."
31
"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."
31
"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."
31
"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."
31
"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."
31
"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause."
31
"Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness."
Love,
31
"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."
31
"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."
31
"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."
31
"Humor is the healthy way of feeling 'distance' between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective."
31
"From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large."
31
"We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places."
31
"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."
31
"Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave."
31
"There is nothing to indicate any biological need for an exclusive primary bond; nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people."
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