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Quotes by Psychologist
"Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures."
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"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."
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"To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men."
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"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."
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"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
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"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously."
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
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"There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison."
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"The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought."
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"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
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"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."
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"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."
Will,
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"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
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"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
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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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"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task."
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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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"Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process."
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"And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture."
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"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school."
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"Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases."
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"We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"
4
"Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited."
4
"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
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"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."
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"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
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"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis."
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"Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home."
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"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
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"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
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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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"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands."
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"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."
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"For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence."
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"The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls."
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"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression."
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"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy."
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"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish."
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"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."
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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
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"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition."
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"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."
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"The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally."
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