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Quotes by Psychologist
"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal."
2
"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."
2
"I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive."
2
"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."
2
"The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it."
2
"I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little."
2
"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
2
"Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?"
2
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
2
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
2
"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."
2
"Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?"
2
"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."
2
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
2
"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."
2
"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."
2
"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."
2
"I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it."
2
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
2
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
2
"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation."
2
"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
2
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
2
"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself."
2
"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
2
"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites."
2
"What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it."
2
"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."
2
"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
Race,
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"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."
2
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
2
"Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow."
2
"A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray."
2
"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
2
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
2
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
2
"In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail."
2
"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
2
"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other."
2
"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
2
"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war."
2
"Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy."
2
"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."
2
"So much is asked of parents, and so little is given."
2
"The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!"
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