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Quotes by Psychologist
"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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"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
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"The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image, and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present, and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Therein lies the social significance of art: it is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is most lacking."
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"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
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"A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock."
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"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
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"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
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"Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego - preserving strategies."
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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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"In the sphere of human relations, faith is an indispensable quality of any significant friendship or love. "Having faith" in another person means to be certain of the reliability and unchangeability of his fundamental attitudes, of the core of his personality, of his love. By this I do not mean that a person may not change his opinions, but that his basic motivations remain the same; that, for instance, his respect for life and human dignity is part of himself, not subject to change."
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"Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish."
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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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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
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"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision."
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"I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell."
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"Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter."
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"That's why we must continue to support godly men and women who have dedicated their lives to Christian principles and to continuing those ideas in our offspring. Professors' worldviews influence whatever they teach, from humanities to basic sciences, and what they think about God cannot be hidden from their students."
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
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"Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all."
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"If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified."
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"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
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"Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick persons responding to threats with a greater degree of undifferentiated anxiety. In psychoanalytic terms, we would speak of this as regression."
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"Christians should never consult astrologers, psychics, or those who practice witchcraft (see Isaiah 47:13-14). They are usually phonies who only pretend to have extrasensory powers. But in some cases, they are working in cooperation with Satan. Rather than tamper with this evil world, the one true God wants us to bring our needs, problems, and decisions to Him. He has promised to lead us into all truth (see John 8:32)."
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"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."
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"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work."
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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."
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"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
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"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
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"Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the 'divine madness, to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non - being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean."
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"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving."
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"Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead."
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"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost."
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"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
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"In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom."
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"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."
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"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
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"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power."
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"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival."
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"The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed."
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"Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce works that are not only significant to his or her age, but that will also speak to future generations."
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"When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to "discover. You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you."
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"Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world."
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"Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did together in the service of the Lord."
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"Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that which divides us, but on the substance that binds us together. That commonality is the gospel of Jesus Christ. He commanded us to love one another-to set aside our differences and to care for "the least of these among us. It is our unity, not our diversity, that deserves our allegiance."
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"I stood in your doorway this morningdreaming you'd turn aroundyou'd tilt your headyou'd softly whisper stayor that you'd grab my armsto shake me while askingwhat the hell are we doingwe loveeach otherand this is not rightso we will make this worknow stay!You poured your coffee. Stirred the spoon like a crystal manwith your back to me and not a sound. the fridge humming elegies while the clock ticked onand the streets are so clean here people rushing to workand maybe I should be tooby nowat this agethis stagethis town.I will stand in that doorway dreamingfor many nights to come."
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"Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort."
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"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"
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"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
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