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Quotes by Psychologist
"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
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"If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against."
31
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
31
"Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature."
31
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
31
"That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing."
31
"Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right."
31
"Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one."
31
"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."
31
"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."
30
"On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other."
30
"Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives."
30
"Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life."
30
"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy."
30
"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."
30
"The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me."
30
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
30
"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."
30
"The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology."
30
"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience."
30
"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."
30
"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
30
"If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality."
30
"The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."
30
"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."
30
"Much self - condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'."
30
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."
30
"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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"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
30
"The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do."
30
"The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon."
30
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
30
"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."
30
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
30
"I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive."
30
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost."
30
"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
30
"Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?"
30
"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."
30
"Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness."
30
"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."
30
"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
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"The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me."
30
"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."
30
"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."
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"Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."
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"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war."
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"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."
30
"There is no certainty; there is only adventure."
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