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Quotes by Psychologist
"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 beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world."
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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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"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
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"I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies."
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
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"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"
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"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him."
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"The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series."
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"I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others."
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"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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"The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced."
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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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"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
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"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism."
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
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"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
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"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears."
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"A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest."
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"Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you."
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"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience."
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"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
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"The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?"
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"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other."
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"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
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"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."
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"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
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"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"
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"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience."
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"In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands."
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"It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action."
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"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."
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"It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress."
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"Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment."
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"The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do."
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"I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did."
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