Psychology Quotes - Page 16

• Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

  Paul Bloom

  Two, White, Population

  "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (Toward a Theory of Moral Development)". Anthology edited by John Brockman, May 14, 2002.

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• When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Break Up, Exercise, Drug Use

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• It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

  Clement Mok

  Art, Philosophy, Unique

  "Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design". Book edited by American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1998.

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• No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

  George H. Mead

  Lines, Individual, Social

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• A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology, through its ability to rapidly identify and reprogram limiting misconceptions, represents the most powerful and effective process to enhance physical and emotional well being.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Powerful, Emotional, Cells

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• Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

  Rumi

  Love, Fall, Eye

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• A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.

  Medard Boss

  Talking, Ideas, Effort

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• This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

  Kenny Loggins

  Spiritual, Healing, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

  George H. Mead

  Determination, Groups, Individual

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

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• As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Past, Clouds

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• The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Groups, Systematic

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Knowledge, Thinking

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have a strong ego, how can you survive? Life is a struggle; if you are egoless you will be destroyed. Then who will resist? Who will fight? Who will compete? And life is a continuous competition. Western psychology says: Attain to the ego, be strong in it.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Struggle, Fighting

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• Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Judging

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• Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Goal, Unintended Consequences, Want To Be Happy

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• Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Reality

  "Martin Seligman : Pursuing Happiness With a Positive Outlook, not a Pill". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. January 24, 1999.

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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, Purpose

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• You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

  Lauren Burns

  Determined, Being The Best, Positive Psychology

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• "Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

  Christopher Peterson

  Moving, People, Matter

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• Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

  John Dewey

  Goal, Action, Positive Psychology

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, John J. McDermott (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935-1937”, p.501, SIU Press

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• By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

  Martin Seligman

  Creative, Feelings, Intellectual

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.44, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Europe, Want

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• The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going.

  Paulo Coelho

  Leadership, People, Knows

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• The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

  Martin Seligman

  Fundamentalist Religion, Brighter Future, Humanistic

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• The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

  Carl Gustav Carus

  Lying, Character, Keys

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