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Quotes by Psychologist
"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why."
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
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"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
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"But, as is obvious to any observer, many people are thrown into anxiety by situations which are not objectively threatening either in kind or degree. The person may very often state himself that the occasion of his anxiety is a relatively minor event, that his apprehension is 'silly, ' and he may be angry with himself for letting such a minor thing bother him; but he still feels it."
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"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."
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"One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves."
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"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."
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"Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line."
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"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment."
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"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
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"Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral consciousness and the arts of civilization? It is a mystery indeed.The most obvious explanation is that the creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as contrasted to the ideal) gods of our society - the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the 'idols of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people."
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"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom."
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"An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important."
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"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself."
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"We may define therapy as a search for value."
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"Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men."
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"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated."
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"Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing."
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"Whenever you come upon a free supply of high-quality corn, provided unexpectedly right there in the middle of the forest, be careful! The people who put it there are probably sitting nearby in a stand, just waiting to take a shot at you. Keep your eyes and ears open!"
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"Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in."
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"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean."
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"For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
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"Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play."
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"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."
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"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."
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"I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save."
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"Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts."
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"Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is."
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"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."
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"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole."
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"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did."
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"Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact. The artist is not a moralist by conscious intention, but is concerned only with hearing and expressing the vision within his or her own being. But out of the symbols the artist sees and creates - as Giotto created the forms for the Renaissance - there is later hewn the ethical structure of the society."
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"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."
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"Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism."
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"Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold."
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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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"Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity."
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"Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a wheelbarrow. Trust in God is like getting in the wheelbarrow! To believe God can do something miraculous is one thing, to risk His willingness to do it in your life is another."
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"When I use the word rebel for the artist, I do not refer to revolutionary or to such things as taking over the dean's office; that is a different matter. Artists are generally soft - spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being's age - old capacity to be insurgent."
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"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."
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"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."
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"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."
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"There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear."
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"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
Fear,
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