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Quotes by Psychologist
"This is my story. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere beautiful, and I know I'm on my way... It's been a beautiful adventure. It always will be."
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"I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave."
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"Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV."
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"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
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"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can."
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"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss."
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
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"Dear me, one day I'll make you proud."
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"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category."
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"We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance."
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"Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups."
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"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness."
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"The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior."
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"Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."
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"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why."
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"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."
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"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try."
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"Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms."
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"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."
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"The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large."
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"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."
Will,
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"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
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"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure."
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"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
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"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
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"Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys."
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"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
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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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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
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"But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever."
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"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness."
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"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
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"I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years."
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"War is organized murder and torture against our brothers."
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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."
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"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause."
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"Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks."
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"In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena."
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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 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."
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"Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women."
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"One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey."
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"It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab."
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"The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes."
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"We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places."
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"When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term."
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"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
Hope,
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