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Quotes by Psychologist
"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge."
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"In this type of anxiety neurosis the anxious attitude is so intimately a part of the individual's method of evaluating stimuli, of orienting herself or himself to every experience, that he or she cannot separate him - or herself enough from anxiety to comprehend the goal of avoidance of, or freedom from, anxiety. What Nancy sought was to be able to step cautiously from rock to rock without falling; the idea or possibility of not being on a precipice at all did not occur to her."
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"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."
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"Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived - not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger."
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"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
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"If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life."
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"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
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"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"
Love,
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"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression."
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"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."
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"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person."
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"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers."
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"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."
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"A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization."
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"Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework."
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"We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive."
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"The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat."
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"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing."
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"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
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"The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella)."
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"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman."
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"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
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"Don't aim at success-the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."
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"Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?"
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"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."
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"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
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"As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything."
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"I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president."
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"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."
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"It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That's what extreme diversity does to us."
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"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."
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"Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos."
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"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise."
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"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."
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"We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
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"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world."
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"I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military."
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"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
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"History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that."
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"Where your fear is,there is your task."
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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
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"I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'"
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