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Quotes by Psychologist
"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending."
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"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
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"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
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"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
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"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
Race,
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"I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it."
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"People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
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"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
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"The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation."
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"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."
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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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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
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"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
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"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
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"The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness."
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"The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
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"A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?"
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"The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in."
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"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."
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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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"Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth."
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"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
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"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
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"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
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"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
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"In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations."
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"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."
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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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"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."
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"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come."
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"For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play."
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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
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"I learn my world through writing."
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"Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests."
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
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"What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance."
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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
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"You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I'm sorry, but they've all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I'm concerned, they didn't make it out alive either, so I'm sure as hell not going to go to them for advice."
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
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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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