Psychological Quotes - Page 23

• While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Veterans Day, Financial Hardship, Our Veterans

  "Being a Voice for Our Veterans" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Heart, Men

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• The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Ideas, People

  "Schooling: The Hidden Agenda". Daniel Quinn's Address at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education in Vancouver, Canada, www.ishmael.org. August 16, 1997.

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• The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
  When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

  Thomas Paine

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Real, Mean

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• In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Mean, Self, Evil

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• Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

  Luc Montagnier

  Support, Function, Critical

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• There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Home, Special, Together

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

  James Agee

  Education, Sick, Insanity

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Suicidal, Ego

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• The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Good Life, Sadness, Psychology

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• Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Law, Psychology, Quality

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.78, Read Books Ltd

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• There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Failing, Source

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

  Garry Kasparov

  Character, Player, Psychology

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• ... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.

  Gennadi Sosonko

  Psychology, Champion, Important

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• The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

  Michael Stean

  Learning, Psychology, Doe

  Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Procedures, Justification

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• Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

  George H. Mead

  Psychology, Phases, Individual

  "Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George Herbert Mead, 1934.

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• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Exercise, Animal, Psychology

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• We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

  Joe Slovo

  White, Important, Overcoming

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• Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Reality, Choices

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

  Sergey Belavenets

  Moving, Benefits, Chess

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• Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

  Oliver Pell

  Reality, Psychological Disorders, Optimism

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• The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Adventure, Player, Men

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• At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

  Hermann Hesse

  Player, Games, Two

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