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Quotes by Psychologist
"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
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"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness."
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"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
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"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
9
"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
9
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
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"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
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"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
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"It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients."
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
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"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
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"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
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"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction."
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"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
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"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."
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"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
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"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."
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"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
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"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
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"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
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"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
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"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."
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"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
8
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
8
"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."
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"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent."
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"Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives."
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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
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"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."
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"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."
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"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
May,
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
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"Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth."
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"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country."
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"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
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"On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question."
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"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
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"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
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"The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe."
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"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."
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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
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